Creative Academic is a not for profit, voluntary and community-based educational social enterprise established in January 2015
Our purpose is to champion creativity, in all its manifestations, in higher education in the UK and the wider world.
Our goal is to become a global HUB for the production, curation and sharing of open educational resources and practices that are of value to the members of our community.
Membership is free and open to anyone who shares our interests and values.
Our interests embrace four broad themes:
1) The creativity of teachers and other professionals who support students' development. We are interested in how teachers use their creativity in their teaching and strategies for learning.
2) The creativity of students and how their creative development is encouraged and facilitated by teachers and other professionals who contribute to their learning and development.
3) The creativity of universities - the ways in which institutions encourage, support, recognise and reward the creativity and creative development of students and staff.
4) The idea of creativity - we conduct open explorations of what creativity means in order to better understand and use the idea. Our current project (2017-18) focuses on Creativity in Practice.
Creative Academic aims to be an effective
Our goals for 2018
1) Maintain and develop a team of volunteers
2) Maintain and develop our website
3) Help facilitate the #creativeHE Google+ Forum and our Google+ & Facebook spaces
3) Maintain and develop our presence on Twitter @academiccreator
4) Maintain and develop a creativeacademic mail list for our members
5) Publish at least two substantial issues of Creative Academic Magazine
6) Contribute to the professional development activities of higher education institutions
7) Contribute to World Creativity & Innovation Week in April
8) Work in partnership with our sister organisations Lifewide Education & #creativeHE
Founders & Co-Leaders
Norman Jackson & Chrissi Nerantzi
Our purpose is to champion creativity, in all its manifestations, in higher education in the UK and the wider world.
Our goal is to become a global HUB for the production, curation and sharing of open educational resources and practices that are of value to the members of our community.
Membership is free and open to anyone who shares our interests and values.
Our interests embrace four broad themes:
1) The creativity of teachers and other professionals who support students' development. We are interested in how teachers use their creativity in their teaching and strategies for learning.
2) The creativity of students and how their creative development is encouraged and facilitated by teachers and other professionals who contribute to their learning and development.
3) The creativity of universities - the ways in which institutions encourage, support, recognise and reward the creativity and creative development of students and staff.
4) The idea of creativity - we conduct open explorations of what creativity means in order to better understand and use the idea. Our current project (2017-18) focuses on Creativity in Practice.
Creative Academic aims to be an effective
- Networker to help people who value and are interested in creativity in higher education to connect and help nurture a community of professional interest and action
- Broker to bring ideas, people and resources together in ways that are relevant to these purposes
- Facilitator to promote conversation and thinking that will lead to action and continued development
- Curator and publisher of resources that are relevant to our purposes
- Creator of new collaborative ecologies for learning and professional development
Our goals for 2018
1) Maintain and develop a team of volunteers
2) Maintain and develop our website
3) Help facilitate the #creativeHE Google+ Forum and our Google+ & Facebook spaces
3) Maintain and develop our presence on Twitter @academiccreator
4) Maintain and develop a creativeacademic mail list for our members
5) Publish at least two substantial issues of Creative Academic Magazine
6) Contribute to the professional development activities of higher education institutions
7) Contribute to World Creativity & Innovation Week in April
8) Work in partnership with our sister organisations Lifewide Education & #creativeHE
Founders & Co-Leaders
Norman Jackson & Chrissi Nerantzi
