CREATE Centre Webinar #14: Kadenze

CREATE Centre Webinar

Date: 31 August 4.00-5.15

Presenters: Brad Haseman and Amanda Morris

Title: Online learning design for creative education

Join us for a CREATE Webinar where Brad Haseman (Prof. Emeritus QUT & VP Kadenze) and Amanda Morris (Director Higher Education Engagement, Kadenze) respond to the limitations of current online learning design based on linear cognitive thinking by outlining a model built on the longstanding educational practices of the creative arts and design. Hear about their recent scholarly exercise with Kadenze, Inc. (‘Kadenze’) in developing a model of online learning design, called Technology Enabled Creative Learning (TECL).  Kadenze proposes TECL as a coherent and mature field of online practice, supported by digital infrastructure that enables students and teachers to participate in creative and collaborative processes online. 

You’ll have the opportunity to test the TECL model by drawing on your proven practice: what strategies are working well for you online and what limitations need to be addressed in the near future?

About the Presenters

Brad Haseman joined Kadenze, Inc. (Kadenze.com) as Executive Vice President in 2019. He oversees arts-led pedagogies and learning design for their global online courses. Prior to joining Kadenze Brad worked for thirty years at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) where he was Professor in Drama Education and held a range of senior leadership posts. For over forty years, as a drama teacher, academic, speaker and researcher he has been fascinated by the aesthetics, forms, and affordability of arts-based learning. He is known as a passionate advocate for the arts in Australian schools and served for more than a decade on committees concerned with the provision and delivery of the arts in Queensland schools, and as Chair of Community Partnerships for the Australia Council for the Arts.  In 2018 Brad was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus by QUT

Amanda Morris is an arts educator, whose career spans leadership roles in higher education, as Executive Director Conservatoire at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art) in Australia, as Dean Performing Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore and as Director, Centre for Fine Arts, Music and Theatre at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Amanda’s expertise is in performing arts and digital media. At NIDA she provided leadership in research and development into drama and new media for which she won a British Academy Award for Interactive Entertainment for the digital learning program, StageStruck, distributed to Australian schools. Amanda made a significant contribution to the dramatic arts by establishing the NIDA Open Program, Australia’s largest performing arts short course program. Amanda is pleased to join Kadenze as Director, Higher Education Engagement, developing Kadenze’s network of academic partners and driving new course development.