Strengthening leadership in learning and teaching in the creative arts

createED aims to facilitate those in learning and teaching leadership roles across the creative arts disciplines nationally to develop leadership capability, through working together strategically on issues of learning and teaching importance in a strategic knowledge network.

At the heart of createED is the strengthening of leadership in learning and teaching across the creative arts disciplines. createED is open to all learning and teaching leaders in universities offering creative arts disciplines. Addressing issues that enhance educational practices, for example, sustaining the studio mode of learning and teaching with reduced budgets, advancing assessment of creative work, and increasing the scholarship of learning and teaching, requires urgent and concerted leadership or ‘collective clout’.

Working collectively will be unique in the creative arts. There are few targeted forums, either physical or virtual, currently available for learning and teaching leaders in the creative arts disciplines to address contemporary and future-oriented challenges, or to give voice to university learning and teaching leadership in a national multi- and cross-disciplinary strategic alliance – despite the size and scope of the discipline cluster. createED is for those in creative arts learning and teaching leadership roles at the coalface in universities

The creative disciplines cluster had 81,279 students enrolled across Australian higher education institutions in 2007, making this cluster larger than the natural and physical sciences (67,416), engineering (68,255) and information technology (47,388), and similar in size to education (95,694).