Dr Nathalie Tasler 🏴🇩🇪Interesting #creativeHE event on 14th of May (free and online as usual):
Sharing experiences through VR drawing tools – 14 May 25 #creativeHE meetup
Sandra Abegglen🚨 New publication:
Academic Wintering: Embracing Warmth, Inclusion and Renewal in Higher Education
This creative, open-access book reveals through personal reflections and shared strategies how educators cultivate warmth, resilience, and connection within the academic community.
⏩ Download the publication here:
https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/psj/keynotes-and-talks/academic-wintering-embracing-warmth-inclusion-and-renewal-in-higher-education/
⏩ Read more about it here, on the #creativeHE blog:
https://creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/academic-wintering-a-creative-open-transdisciplinary-collaboration/
🚨 Deadline Extended: 31 January 2025 🚨
🌟 Call for Contributions: Academic Wintering Practices 🌟
How do you embrace the season to support learning, well-being, and connection in your teaching?
We’d love to hear your examples! Take a few minutes to share your insights in our survey and join the conversation.
👉 https://forms.gle/FHjT5LFk7Y29idsk8
#AcademicWintering #TeachingWellBeing #EducatorInsights #creativeHE
Share your Academic Winter(ing) practices with us!
While the shortest day of the year is now behind us, the days remain short, and those early morning classes can still feel challenging. Based on our ongoing discussion, we recognise how functioning within the neoliberal university requires a disconnect from our bodies, even more so if you do not fit the definition of an "ideal worker". Yes, we see all our and your racialised, queer, menstruating, neurodivergent or disabled bodies in this space and reaffirm the importance of our collective experiences and knowledge. In this short, online survey, we’d love to hear about your academic 'wintering' practices. How do you navigate the season with your students? What strategies, small comforts, or creative approaches help make teaching, learning, and simply being at the university more enjoyable during these chilly months? What fosters inclusion and well-being, for all? Please share your tips, stories, and ideas with us by completing this online form. We plan to publish contributions as an open-access publication on the Pedagogies for Social Justice Blog! We're brewing some extra hot chocolate and eagerly looking forward to your contributions. Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2025 Stay warm, The Academic Wintering Practices Project Team Annapurna Menon, University of Sheffield - [email protected] Kelsea Costin, University of Westminster - [email protected] Sandra Abegglen, University of Calgary - [email protected]
Apologies for the brag… but: the #OEAward24 in the Open Assets category for Open Curation/Repository goes to
🏆 the #creativeHE AI in Education team from the University of Leeds, University of Calgary, University of Macedonia, University of Suffolk, and University of the Arts London!
Read more 🔗
https://awards.oeglobal.org/2024-revealing/ AND https://awards.oeglobal.org/2024-open-assets-awards/
The editorial team
Sandra Abegglen | Chrissi Nerantzi | Antonio Martínez-Arboleda | Marianthi (Marianna) Karatsiori | Javiera Atenas | Chris Rowell
Revealing 2024 Open Education Awards for Excellence Winners
Meet the Winners Meet the Winners Meet the Winners Meet the Winners We All Are Winners Because-- The Open Education Awards are designed to not just crown winners, but to widely recognize as much as the community as possible. For 2024 we are proud
Our crowdsourced genAI collections have been shortlisted for an OEGlobal Award in the category Open Curation/Repository!
https://awards.oeglobal.org/2024-finalists/
2024 Shortlist of Finalists
The annual Open Education Awards for Excellence recognizes outstanding contributions in the Open Education community, recognizing exemplary Individuals, distinctive Open Educational Resources, and innovative Open Practices from around the world. As part of sharing as much recognition as possible,
The second open crowdsourced collection by #creativeHE has been published!
Towards AI Literacy: 101+ Creative and Critical Practices, Perspectives and Purposes
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11613520
The collection presents creative and critical practices, perspective and purposes from educators, researchers and students on AI in Education.
Towards AI Literacy: 101+ Creative and Critical Practices, Perspectives and Purposes
“This collection of AI stories and examples in education exemplifies citizen science at its finest. It captures the authentic voices of individuals who are actively testing and expanding their AI literacy, sharing their experiences to support and inspire others. Through their contributions, they collectively advance our understanding and application of AI in educational settings, showcasing the true spirit of community-driven learning and innovation. Your feedback is encouraged; this story is only beginning". Dr Margaret Korosec, Dean of Online and Digital Education, University of Leeds This is the second open crowdsourced collection by #creativeHE which presents creative and critical practices, perspective and purposes from educators, researchers and students between September 2023 and January 2024. We are grateful for all 119 contributions from 22 countries: Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay. As the collection is made available under the Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA licence, anybody can use the collection as open data to further interrogate the use of AI in Education. Please share any resulting outcomes with the editorial team and the wider community. The collection has been generously supported by the Imagination Lab Foundation through the Playful Hybrid Higher Education project (https://playhybrid.education/) led by Sandra Abegglen and situated in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary. Thanks go also to #creativeHE of which we, the editors, are all part of and that has acted as supporter of the creative AI collections from the very beginning. The #creativeHE community hosts all calls and dissemination activities for the AI collections on their website: https://creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/ - A special thank you to Leonor Agüero Vivas for the beautiful design.-
Next #creativeHE event:
Decolonising spaces and what does the C in creativity mean for you, 17 April 2024
with Melanie Welaratne and Kiu Sum
Melanie will share her experiences using drawing and writing simultaneously to develop ideas.
Kiu’s session aims to bring together colleagues from different disciplines and world of works to discuss what creativity means to you.
More info and sign up:
https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/338fa174-f8e2-4255-8739-09082a3c6216@bdeaeda8-c81d-45ce-863e-5232a535b7cb
Don Watkins#OA Book: 101 Creative Ideas to Use AI in Education – #creativeHE https://creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/2023/06/23/oa-book-101-creative-ideas-to-use-ai-in-education/ | @mrolean
Nathalie Tasler#creativeHE current call for contribution is open
This academic year, our main focus is on creative assessment ideas/practices and contributions
The idea comes directly from members of the creativeHE community in association with the UK Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group (MELSIG) and the Journal Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (oSoTL).
For more details look at the blog post: https://creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/open-call-share-your-creative-assessment-ideas-practice-and-connect-with-others/
#assessment #creativity #creativeHE #HigherEd #AcademicLife #SoTL
Educational Professionals & Students: We are interested in your use of AI.
Thanks Media & Learning Association for the shout-out!
https://media-and-learning.eu/subject/higher-education/exploring-101-ideas-open-book-of-early-ai-experiments-by-educators-students-and-researchers/
Chrissi Nerantzi | Sandra Abegglen | Marianthi (Marianna) Karatsiori | Antonio Martínez-Arboleda | Bushra Hashim
#aiineducation #creativeHE #openaccess #learning #futures #callforpapers
Exploring 101 ideas: open book of early AI experiments by educators, students, and researchers
by Chrissi Nerantzi, Sandra Abegglen, Marianna Karatsiori, Antonio Martínez-Arboleda. This year has led to an explosion of interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential uses in education…