Copyright

Paola Corti, Chrissi Nerantzi

Published On

2023-10-25

Page Range

pp. 291–302

Language

  • English

Print Length

12 pages

11. Calm in the storm

Chapter of: Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures(pp. 291–302)
In this chapter, the authors use a photograph and an audio podcast with a transcript to guide a multimodal reflection on the role of universities in the complex and diverse context offered by society at large. Through a body and mind experience, individuals are invited to close their eyes and immerse themselves in a relaxing activity that transports them into a mountainous landscape and ecosystem. The authors describe the landscape pictured in the photograph and guide listeners/readers through a high bird-eye view down to the details of the - sometimes lively, sometimes apparently quiet - ground-level life and features. The metaphor is meant to help ignite conversations around the meaning of “good” in the context of universities looking at them as part of a larger social ecosystem.

Contributors

Paola Corti

(author)
Project Manager and Instructional Designer at Politecnico di Milano
Open Education Community Manager at European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8506-7148

Paola Corti is a project manager and instructional designer at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). She works on international projects, MOOC design and development, and professional development courses for faculty and researchers on open education and innovative pedagogical approaches. She is the open education community manager of the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL), supporting librarians in taking action to implement the UNESCO OER Recommendation. She is a facilitator for Creative Commons certificate courses.

Chrissi Nerantzi

(author)
Associate Professor in Education, School of Education at University of Leeds
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7145-1800
https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/education/staff/2085/dr-chrissi-nerantzi

Chrissi Nerantzi is an associate professor in education in the School of Education at the University of Leeds (UK). Her research interests include creativity, open education, cross-boundary collaborative learning, networks, and communities. She has initiated a range of open professional development initiatives that have been sustained over the years, bringing educators, students, and the wider public together.