Applied Practice DES31
Playing for Change – the Role of Creative Activities
Date Thursday, Dec 3 Time – RoomCharlottenburg III
Come experience first-hand immersive and playful learning and development through the use of creative hands-on activities. Reflect on your own practice, consider adapting a novel approach in your professional context, share your related practices and discuss the use and usefulness of play supported by technologies in the higher education classroom.
Moderators
Jenny Fisher
Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Dr Jenny Fisher is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Care and Social Work, Manchester Metropolitan University, with extensive professional experience of working in communites and with regional and natonal government. She teaches on the BA (Hons) Social Care and the MA Health and Social Care programmes. She is an experienced ethnographic researcher who has undertaken research that explores personalization, voluntary organisations and the role of community spaces. Jenny is an innovative academic who brings in creative approaches to her teaching. She has led the introduction of animation as a form of assessment within MMU, and supported colleagues with using animation in research and for learning and teaching. She has had abstracts accepted to discuss the use of animation at two learning and teaching conferences in 2015. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Chrissi Nerantzi
Principal Lecturer in Academic CPD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Hello/Hallo/Γεια σας, I am Chrissi (Nerantzi) a playful academic developer in the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom and a PhD student in open education. I am really looking forward to seeing you in Berlin.
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https://chrissinerantzi.wordpress.com/http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/about_celt/st…