Creative Futures Innovation Toolkit
& thoughts about Teaching & Learning, Education, Innovation and Creativity
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By David Yarwood I have long believed that we talk too much about innovation in education and do too little to design for it. This post introduces the first in a series of one-page resources I am developing to help shift that balance. These one-pagers are part of a wider project that explores how assessment…
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By David Yarwood When we talk about innovation in higher education, assessment is often the elephant in the seminar room. Despite bold claims about graduate attributes and creativity, much of our assessment practice remains rooted in risk-averse, standardised, and compliance-driven models. Over the past year, I’ve been exploring this tension more deeply — most recently…
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This research project aims to enhance entrepreneurial competencies among students within the Faculty of Business and Law through the development and implementation of an ‘Innovation and Creativity in Teaching and Learning Toolkit.’ The toolkit will comprise a range of guides for activities, lessons, and teaching case studies that support the development of key enterprise and…
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I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this podcast. Through our Degree Apprenticeship projects we are looking at ways to encourage out learners to become ‘impact intrapreneurs’.
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I recently delivered a session on the University’s DELTA (Digitally Enhanced Learning, Teaching and Assessment) Strategy at our SES Department Away Day. We talked about where the Strategy fits in with the Road to 2030 and Education Strategies, with the main focus on our current approach to Flexible Active Learning. It was amazing to see…
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Over the last few months, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what really interests me in Higher Education. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with our Degree Apprentices on their Project Units. What has really caught my attention is the process of how the themes for work-based projects are generated. My colleague Dr Vicky…
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For the majority of my career to date I have been a secondary school teacher. Since completing my PGCE in 2007 I have held the positions of Head of House, Head of Department and Head of Year. In September this year I was lucky enough to start a new chapter and try my hand at…
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