"Collaborating2Create": Developing Learners' Capacity for Collaborative Creativity Through Linking Education and Enterprise

• In Event: Instructional Support, Creative Learning, and Knowledge Building

Abstract

Collaboration and creativity represent complex competencies some claim are essential in the workplace. Furthermore, many employers report a significant number of students leave education unequipped with such skills. In spite of this, there remains uncertainty of how to teach these competencies. This paper evidences how a conceptual tool to support educational design – Collaborating2Create – was co-constructed through Design-Based Research, to support teachers in responding to this need. C2C is not a combination of collaboration and creativity: rather it focuses on the middle of the Venn diagram where collaboration and creativity intentionally intersect. Through case study analysis the paper illustrates how C2C was developed, integrated and observed in group interactions.

Authors

• Alison Jane Twiner, University of Cambridge

• Louis Major, University of Cambridge

• Rupert Wegerif, University of Cambridge