National Teaching Fellowship award winner famous for using a garden shed

A Professor from the Cass Business School has been named as one the top 20 university teachers in the UK this year. Clive Holtham, Professor of Information Management has been awarded a £50,000 National Teaching Fellowship, to enable him to promote practical innovation in teaching and learning methods. He will be applying the funding to a research and development project from 2003-6 on increasing the take-up of innovative teaching and learning methods in business education.

Part of the funding will be used to bring in sixth formers from local secondary schools in Islington and students from the City and Islington College. The idea is to draw on the expertise of the students in art, design, video and technology to work with lecturers and professors on an individual basis, to help them convert their teaching materials to electronic formats, using modern multimedia methods.

The award recognizes his extensive contribution to improving teaching and learning both nationally and internationally. He has been an advisor on educational multimedia to the European Parliament, and for the last two years has been leading a European Commission research project into exploitation of intellectual capital. He was involved since 1996 in the detailed design of the award-winning new Cass Business School building in Bunhill Row, London EC1. He has recently been appointed inaugural Director of the Cass Learning Laboratory, which seeks to exploit all the opportunities in the new building for progressive twenty first century management education. In recognition of his innovative online learning method (the Dynamic Knowledge Network), he was named as one of UK’s top three e-Tutors of 2001 in a competition organised by the Times Higher Education Supplement. In 2000, he was awarded the inaugural City University Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Learning. He made several media appearances relating to IT in teaching – BBC, Channel 4, BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle and satellite TV. He has an extensive record of academic publications relating to teaching and learning. Although recognised as one of the UK’s leading experts in e-learning, he has been equally active in wholly non-computerised innovations. In 2000 he surprised the delegates to the University’s first City Insights lecture by using a garden shed as a full-size teaching aid. He has developed workshops using fiction as a metaphor to stimulate business knowledge. His most recent academic paper looks at the role of postcards in stimulating management creativity.

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