A6 structure like the Playful Learning Association, #CreativeHE could be encouraged at local levels...communities of practice? #lthechat
We are delighted to invite you to the following #creativeHE and #ICRSC meet-up:
Harnessing Scattered Energy: A Reflective Session on Sustainable Creativity in Academia
19 March 2026, 2-3pm GMT
Sandra Sinfield, Sandra Abegglen, Magda Olchawska
Register:
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#LoveLD - love #creativeHE - and looking forward to Harnessing Scattered Energy... a creativeHE and #ICRSC meetup (19 March 26) creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/h... - please join us! #LTHEchat #EdChat #studychat
#LoveLD Invitation to join #NormanJackson (lifewider1@gmail.com) 12-week inquiry into AI: What happens when we treat our interactions with AI not as convenience, but as sites of inquiry? www.lifewideeducation.uk/living--lear... #creativeHE #EdChat #LTHEchat
#LoveLD - love #creativeHE and love this: For five years, we’ve been asking: Why reimagine education?
Because how we learn changes how we live.
Join us! re-imagining.education
Feb 26 – March 1, 2026 | Online
Forthcoming #creativeHE event, March 19:
Harnessing Scattered Energy
creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/h...
Engaged in creative practices? CfP: Submit a Manuscript to the Journal of Visual Literacy - D/L 23 F£B 26: - For a Special Issue on: Visual Creativity: Digital, Non‑Digital & Symbiotic Perspectives in Education Futures: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #LoveLD #creativeHE #EdChat #LTHEchat
Read insights from visiting scholar Yaqi Wou who visited the School of Education from September to December last year to carry out research and engage with creative learning practices with the ICRSC and the #creativeHE community.
bit.ly/3LLkqxP
#ResearchInnovation #CreativeResearch
#LoveLD - love #creativeHE - and still get a buzz from #DS106? Then checkout @cogdog on the Frankenpoem - the remix - and jamming with @dogtrax@mastodon.social - cogdogblog.com/2026/01/fran...
A pixellated pacman ghost peeking out from behind a tree.
Call for interactive sessions for #PlayfulLearning closes midnight on Monday 2nd February!
If you work at the intersection of #learning and #play for adults, take a look. This year's theme is "Into the Woods".
playfullearningassoc.co.uk/conference/
#GBL #games4Research #seriousGames #creativeHE
illustration of an open notebook & surrounding the book are pencils, lightbulb, people and speech bubbles.
Calling all #LoveLD community– share your practices with the HE sector via #LearnHigher – help the sector and looks great on any #ALDinHE #Fellowship #CMALT or #UKAT applications. Submit via: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/learnhigher/submit-resource #HigherEd #CreativeHE
The fabulous @neilwithnell.bsky.social is retiring. He's had such a +ve influence on digital learning, staff & students. He's not one for bigging himself up, so let’s do it for him! Add your messages here 👉 lancashire.padlet.org/EGillaspy/neil #LTHEchat #BYOD4L #SocMedHE25 #creativeHE #PlayLearn
illustration of an open notebook & surrounding the book are pencils, lightbulb, people and speech bubbles.
Calling all #LoveLD community– share your practices with the HE sector via #LearnHigher – help the sector and looks great on any #ALDinHE #Fellowship #CMALT or #UKAT applications. Submit via: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/learnhigher/submit-resource #HigherEd #CreativeHE
#LTHEchat Finding a new tribe - feeling connected with some great new people (new to me!) - and holding a space to think and talk about my passion with other passionate people! #edchat #studychat #LoveLD #creativeHE
Yes - find your work tribe! Also, when work is really tough, find your other tribes, like @aldinhe.bsky.social #creativeHE #LTHEchat ... Find people to talk to, work with, write together with. Meet regulalry - be kind!
Figure 6 in Abegglen et al., 2025, p. 57. An AI-generated cartoon of a pirate ship named 'unmasked' with a rag tag crew of creative higher education pirates on board.
I loved collaborating on this, hope it's a fun/provocative read! osotl.org/osotl/articl... @sandra-abegglen.bsky.social @danceswithcloud.bsky.social @rachelleeobrien.bsky.social @alexspiers.bsky.social @annaclarehunter.bsky.social MarianthiKaratsiori & TomBurns💜 @osotl.bsky.social #SoTL #creativeHE
illustration of an open notebook & surrounding the book are pencils, lightbulb, people and speech bubbles.
Calling all #LoveLD community– share your practices with the HE sector via #LearnHigher – help the sector and looks great on any #ALDinHE #Fellowship #CMALT or #UKAT applications. Submit via: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/learnhigher/submit-resource #HigherEd #CreativeHE
I have a new blog post out on Games For All looking at the board game Bot Factory. A brilliant game that both mechanically and thematically can be used to explore Kanban methodology and the impact of competitiveness in business/management. #boardgame #education #kanban #creativeHE #playfullearning
#LoveLD #creativeHE and ICRSC meetup Nov 25 - 14.00-15.00 GMT: "AI and Practical Skills Fuel Rural Imagination": creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/o...
illustration of an open notebook & surrounding the book are pencils, lightbulb, people and speech bubbles.
Calling all #LoveLD community– share your practices with the HE sector via #LearnHigher – help the sector and looks great on any #ALDinHE #Fellowship #CMALT or #UKAT applications. Submit via: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/learnhigher/submit-resource #HigherEd #CreativeHE
#LoveLD love #creativeHE and loving this: The Active Learning Network’s annual online CPD series is on 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th November from 10-11.30am. The theme this year is “Creativity for All!” and it is FREE: www.tickettailor.com/events/activ...
illustration of an open notebook & surrounding the book are pencils, lightbulb, people and speech bubbles.
Calling all #LoveLD community– share your practices with the HE sector via #LearnHigher – help the sector and looks great on any #ALDinHE #Fellowship #CMALT or #UKAT applications. Submit via: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/learnhigher/submit-resource #HigherEd #CreativeHE
illustration of an open notebook & surrounding the book are pencils, lightbulb, people and speech bubbles.
Calling all #LoveLD community– share your practices with the HE sector via #LearnHigher – help the sector and looks great on any #ALDinHE #Fellowship #CMALT or #UKAT applications. Submit via: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/learnhigher/submit-resource #HigherEd #CreativeHE
illustration of an open notebook & surrounding the book are pencils, lightbulb, people and speech bubbles.
Calling all #LoveLD community– share your practices with the HE sector via #LearnHigher – help the sector and looks great on any #ALDinHE #Fellowship #CMALT or #UKAT applications. Submit via: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/learnhigher/submit-resource #HigherEd #CreativeHE
#Becomingeducational Using #MoMA's #artmoocs to navigate grief and to think creatively about teaching and learning: becomingeducational.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/b... This episode looks at #SocialandEmotionalLearning #SEL #LoveLD #creativeHE
#LoveLD - love #creativeHE Really looking forward to this year's #creativeHE Jam - Weds 13th August - 2.00-3.30 BST - online.
Information - including registration and invitation to contribute here:
creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/c...
I've registered - hope to see you there!
#creativeHE Jam 2025
🗓️ 13th August 2025, 2-3.30pm pm UK time
✏️ #creativeHE Organisers: Dr Anna Hunter, Simon Abbott, & Dr Charlotte Stevens
creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/c...
Free and open to all!
#LoveLD - love #creativeHE: Congratulations to our #PaoloOprandi and all in the #ActiveLearningNetwork for a fabulous Conference y'day: <hwuniversity.padlet.org/sg149/international-acti...>! Let's shout more loudly about your Network!!
If you are interested in AI & Play, read:
PLAYI: postcript, futurescript
engagingimagination.com/projects-and...
Our #creativeHE contribution: Uncovering early playful GenAI experimentations from practice - Chrissi Nerantzi, Sandra Abegglen, Javiera Atenas, Marianna Karatsiori
#LoveLD - and thank you #creativeHE for this lovely review of our Stories of Hope book: creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/n... - with link to the open book publication!