Join us for this collaborative Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE) and University of Huddersfield regional event exploring creative teaching and learning tools and practices.

This Look/Make/Learn event features four workshops facilitated by colleagues from the University of Huddersfield, Manchester Metropolitan University and Staffordshire University. Workshop details and Programme are below.

This event is for colleagues who have teaching and learning roles e.g. learning developers, academics, learning technologists, academic skills tutors and subject librarians.

If you want to explore visual and creative approaches to teaching and learning or are seeking fresh ideas, then this day is for you.

Bookmaking for visual thinking, recording and reflection by Sarah Williamson {University of Huddersfield}

This workshop will start by exploring the benefits of creative ‘making’ for thinking and learning, and then introduce bookmaking in a concertina form. Visual recording and reflection can allow a personal, expressive and thoughtful response, and participants will make their own booklet to use throughout the rest of the day. Collage will also be introduced as a form of inquiry in both textual and visual form.

Playing with Genre by Dr Alke Groppel-Wegener {Staffordshire University}

This workshop will allow participants to explore genre as a pedagogical resource by using simple design exercises that can easily be integrated into teaching a variety of subjects. After warming up our awareness of genre with a simple drawing exercise, we will explore the affordances designing board games allows for getting students to reflect on their strengths and weaknesses of (academic) processes and discuss the potential to use this within planning sessions and timetabling.

Make It Yourself (MIY) by Chrissi Nerantzi {Manchester Metropolitan University}

We are all guilty of complaining, yes complaining, that we have limited or no resources to make learning and teaching stimulating. But is the answer to be more resourceful? In a world of open education and the revival of the maker movement, it is about time to wake up and immerse ourselves in the opportunities these bring. This workshop will, hopefully, open our eyes and minds to new (im)possibilities to make learning and teaching a sticky experience full of suspense and surprise, imagination and creativity.

Models and Metaphors: Using LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) in teaching, learning and research by Liz Dixon & Judith Kidder {University of Huddersfield}

This interactive workshop will explore the application of the principles of LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) and metaphorical modelling. LSP is based on a process of making and thinking and enables more latitude for participants to shape and talk about a subject in their own terms. Participants will have the opportunity to build 3D models using LEGO bricks and use those models as a trigger for an informal and unstructured exchange of ideas. As well as experiencing the process, there will be an opportunity to discuss how this approach might be applied in teaching, learning and research.

ALDinHE Event Programme

ALDinHE Regional Event: Look/Make/Learn