ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference 2024 - Call for proposals
ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference, 7 to 9 October 2024.
The fourth ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference will take place at the University of Tartu from 7 to 9 October 2024. The conference theme is Innovation and Creativity in Higher Education.
The ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference seeks to engage participants in open, international and interdisciplinary discussions. Applicants are requested to contribute via oral presentations, poster presentation sessions, interactive and/or co-creative workshops, or roundtables.
We invite academics, students, alumni, educational developers, and administrative and support staff from within the ENLIGHT universities to share their experiences and ideas on how it is possible to connect the ENLIGHT educational goals and concepts with teaching and learning practice.
The submission for proposals and guidelines are available: ENLIGHT Teaching & Learning Conference 2024 in Tartu
Practical information
The conference begins with a pre-conference on 7 October, when longer workshops will be held on topics related to the conference theme. The pre-conference is aimed for a smaller audience of 80 participants. The following days of the conference will be dedicated to presentations, shorter workshops, poster presentations and roundtable discussions.
The sub-themes of the conference are:
- Supporting creativity and innovation in education through active learning and engagement
- Designing learning environments that foster creativity and innovation
- GenAI’s impact on creativity
- Society's expectations for a creative university
- Failure or a Creative Idea?
- Challenges in assessing innovation and creativity
Creativity and Innovation
Creativity is the ability to produce new, diverse, and unique ideas. It is the practice of thinking outside of the box. Creativity empowers students to find innovative solutions to complex challenges. While creativity is the ability to produce new and unique ideas, innovation is the implementation of that creativity.
Education strives to prepare students for a world of constant change. Beyond traditional academic knowledge, students must develop essential skills that will equip them to thrive in this dynamic landscape. Students propose innovative solutions to a situation or problem, undertake novel actions and show initiative and resolution capacity. It means students can look at a problem from multiple perspectives — including those others may not see.
Teaching should cater to developing students’ creative and innovative skills by incorporating active learning, challenge-based education, project-based learning, problem-solving, arts-based tasks and critical thinking. Collaboration and communication are crucial, as are considerations for equity to ensure access for all students.
The conference offers an excellent opportunity to share ideas and experiences on how innovation and creativity have been supported in universities and how to do so in the future.
Call for registration
Registration to the event will be possible starting July.
Contact
For additional questions and information, please contact: enlight2024tartu@ut.ee