Enhancement Project - Chrissi Nerantzi

Chrissi Nerantzi

Chrissi is a Reader in Academic CPD in the University Teaching Academy at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has academic leadership of the Good Practice Exchange, Communities and Networks, Teaching Excellence; is the institutional lead for NTF and CATE submissions, teaches on the PgCert and the MA in Higher Education, is one of the Faculty link for the Arts and Humanities Faculty and developed and leads FLEX since 2014 an openly licensed practice-based professional development initiative with formal and informal pathways that has inspired colleagues to adapt FLEX for students. Chrissi is pioneering a wide range of creative, innovative, open and collaborative approaches to learning, teaching and assessment across the institution, including the use of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, learning through making and play and storytelling. Her research interests include, creativity, open education, cross-boundary collaborative learning and communities. She collaborates with colleagues nationally and internationally in these areas.

Chrissi is a UK HEA National Teaching Fellow (2015), HEA Principal Fellow (PFHEA), Senior Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association (SFSEDA), a Member of ALT (CMALT) and a Global OER Graduate Network Fellow and the ALT Learning Technologist of the Year 2017. Chrissi is also an HEA Accreditor and a member of the Advisory Board of the award winning UNESCO programme Open Education for a Better World as well as the global mentor co-ordinator of this programme. She is the co-founder of the highly successful international Learning and Teaching in Higher Education tweetchat (#LTHEchat); the founder of the international community Creativity for Learning in Higher Education with 13 member institutions and the co-founder of Creative Academic that promotes creativity globally and publishes the Creative Academic Magazine. Chrissi has developed and founded a series openly licensed courses such as the Flexible, Online and Distance Learning (FDOL), Bring Your Own Devices for Learning (BYOD4L) and the Flexible, Open and Social Learning (FOS) that have been offered by multiple institutions for staff and students.

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