ENroute Yearbook 2016-17
Co-creation for learning and teaching Christine Penman, The Business School, Senior Fellow
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. John Cotton Dana( 1856-1929)
John Cotton Dana was an American librarian and museum director who was passionate about the educational value of the material he was curating. The compilation of my portfolio was a useful reminder that the“ library” I learn from and feed into my teaching does not only come from scholarly articles and textbooks: it is largely experiential, one built up from aggregated contacts and projects with colleagues and students over the years.
The application process for Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy encouraged me to look back at a number of co-creations and select particular examples: the productive team work involved in programme and curricular design to produce a new suite of modules for our revamped Language and Intercultural Communication programme; the creation of Online Learning Objects with students on French extracts of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo; a funded pedagogical exchange programme with Aix Marseille University which allowed our mutual students to benefit from linguistic and cultural contacts and industrial visits in France and Scotland; the contributions from colleagues across the university to showcase their reflections in the edited collection Innovations in Learning and Teaching. All of these and other initiatives came to be through the will to pull forces with others and try something different. In each case the process invariably raised questions but met its purpose and released energy to move forward.
Penman, C. and Foster, M.( Eds.)( 2016) Innovations in Learning and Teaching. Merchiston Publishing: Edinburgh Napier University Press
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