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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS Bookings are currently being taken for the First Northumbria Creativity Conference, details of which are given below: The First Northumbria Creativity Conference Wednesday 30th August - Friday 1st September, 2000 University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK (Longhirst Campus) Enhancing students' creativity - Creating the creative university Whatever the future holds, it is likely to require groups and individuals who are flexible, open-minded, responsive to opportunities and problems, and creative, in order to contribute to social, economic, technological and personal development. How can higher education enable students to develop their creative attitudes and abilities, and to meet the challenges of the future? Following on from the success of the four previous international Northumbria higher education conferences on assessment, it is our intention to hold the First Northumbria Creativity conference. The aim of this conference will be to explore the ways in which educational and organisational development may enable students to enhance their creativity, in or across all disciplines. The format of the Northumbria Creativity Conference will be highly participative. Much of our work will be undertaken in thematic task groups, which will be commissioned to adopt imaginative approaches to the design of: * Teaching, learning and assessment methods * Higher education curricula * Learning environments * Staff development strategies * Academic departments * Universities and colleges, and government policies for higher education, specifically to enhance the creative ability of students (and therefore, their teachers and managers). The work of the task groups will be stimulated by keynote talks, workshops and other resources. Our guest speakers and facilitators will include: * Amy Swisher, Creativity Consultant, RiverRun Communications, USA; * Graham Rawlinson, Next Step Associates. Innovation Consultant and TRIZ Specialist; * John Abbott, 21st Century Learning Initiative, a transitional programme to synthesise the best of research and development into the nature of human learning, and to examine its implications for education, work and the development of communities worldwide; * Caroline Baillie, Lecturer in Materials and in Education Development; and * Simon Dewulf, Researcher, Creativity Project Leaders, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London. * David Weir, Dean and Director of the Newcastle Business School, University of Northumbria. Among the topics for the seminar and workshop sessions will be: * Creating space dedicated to learning * Tools for creative thinking across disciplines at the University of Malta * Creating an organisational theatre of learning * Creative and affective components of thinking * Staff and students' conceptions of creativity * A creative approach to business education at Auckland University of Technology * Retaining creativity in the digital global economy * Interdisciplinary knowledge creation at the Free University of Amsterdam * The atelier principle in teaching architecture * Individual creativity in a mass system of higher education * Creativity in students' writing * Creativity in the empowered workplace * Stimulating right brain thinking at the University of Sydney * Critical creative incidents in learning * Creative processes in different disciplines at the University of Technology in Sydney * Using imagework in teaching * Creativity and self-organised learning in computing If you would like to receive further details of this event please forward your contact details, including an e mail address if available to the following address: Anne Middleton, Conference Administrator, Centre for Advances in Higher Education, Kielder House, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Coach Lane Campus, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7XA UK Tel: +44 - 0191-215-6022/227-4181 Fax: +44 - 0191-227-4181 Email [log in to unmask] Web address: http://hswe.unn.ac.uk/cahe.htm Informal queries about the conference can be made to Gwen Marples, member of the Conference Planning Group at the same address or by e-mail to: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%