Results and Materials
Results, Conferences, Events & Publications
Throughout this project, we have developed a diverse range of innovative teaching tools and activities designed to enhance the teaching and learning experience.
These resources are available for you to explore in the "Results" section below.
All of the tools and activities are available for direct download, allowing you to integrate them into your own teaching. To get an overview of all the results and products we created, please have a look at our video abstract:
Results
Report on existing insights
In this Hacking Innovative Pedagogies (HIP) Synthesis Report we asked ourselves, how we can build and improve digital capacity and digital readiness in higher education.
This commented atlas of digital ecosystems guides through rewilding education, techno-feminism and ecologies of care by hacking innovative pedagogies.
Framework for Rewilding Digital Learning Ecology
The Hacking Innovative Pedagogies (HIP) Framework aims to guide higher education (HE) teachers and researchers to reconsider and reflect on how to rethink HE pedagogy in new and different ways.
It incorporates the spirit of rewilding and hacking pedagogies to inspire new professional communities focused on innovating digital education.
The framework considers and guides the development of teachers’ digital pedagogy competences through an inclusive bottom-up approach.
This approach gives space for individual teacher’s agency while also ensuring a collective teaching culture.
HIP-Framework (English)
HIP-Framework (Dansk)
HIP-Framework (Deutsch)
Compendium of Innovative Practices
As part of an innovative practice, an educational Hackathon “Go Wild to Stay Well” was hosted at Dublin City University (DCU). In November 2023, over 750 students worked together for a weekend to find solutions to given challenges.
Another innovative practice was the implementation of a digital Makerspace. This report presents three digital stories that have been created of the products and ideas that were generated in the digital Makerspace.
In October 2023, the University of Graz hosted a Makerspace event for three weeks where students, digital experts and teachers from various countries worked collaboratively on given challenges. We were inspired by the products and the ideas that were generated by the different groups, and created digital
stories as a result.
In addition, expert videos were filmed by Aalborg University that can be accessed via the MOOC (R6)
- Report about the educational Hackathon
- Digital Stories from the Makerspace.
Guidelines for Hacker Pedagogy
We have developed some guidelines for developing innovative learning resources.
These guidelines are based on the synthesis report (result 1) and the HIP framework (result 2).
The following document also includes an action template that is available for download in order to
design an innovative teaching activity that is also linked to one of the attributes fo the Flow Board.
The guidelines are available in English, Danish and German.
Guidelines for Hacker Pedagogy (English version)
Guidelines for Hacker Pedagogy (Danish version)
Guidelines for Hacker Pedagogy (German version)
We also created additional teaching materials that have also been used in the multiplier events, as well as at university courses:
Spin the wheel!
We created a wheel with all the attributes from the Flow Board. This wheel is a playful way of deciding which attributes to work on, or for which attribute a group can develop a new teaching tool.
Trading cards for inspiration to create and develop innovative teaching tools.
The trading cards present examples from our own teaching by relying on the HIP framework and the Flow Board.
The cards can be used either to try out our activities or to create innovative teaching activities for your own purposes.
Innovative teaching activities booklet
We collected tools that we used in our networks, teaching and in the project. In addition, we also created new innovative teaching tools and organised all of these tools and activities in a booklet. All of the 30 innovative teaching activities can be found a booklet that is available in 3 languages:
English booklet
Danish booklet
German booklet
Competency Assessment Tool
We developed a competency assessment tool, the Hacking Innovative Pedagogies (HIP) Rubric for teachers.
This instrument is organised into various categories and can be used for self-evaluation.
The HIP Rubric has been developed to help teachers identify areas in their practice which they want to improve.
Our competency assessment tool is available in English, German and Danish and can be downloaded directly.
Hacking Innovative Pedagogies MOOC
As part of our project, we developed a MOOC that is also linked to the synthesis report (R1) and our HIP framework (R2)
In the MOOC, innovative practices, expert videos and parts for reflection are available for teachers to engage with.
Please click on the link to access our MOOC “Hack this course: Digital pedagogy rewilded”.
Upcoming conference presentations:
"Rewilding Education: Hacking Innovative Pedagogies Across Transnational Contexts to Address Critical Digital Literacies and AI Integration (2022-2025)" at EDEN 2025 (June 15-17)
"Charting the Way Forward: Education, Research, Potentials and Perspectives" at ECER 2025 (August 25-29)
EdTech annual conference 2024 and Innovation in Higher Education Conference, EADTU
presentation of the HIP project
Eamon Costello and his team from DCU presented the HIP project at two conferences, namely at the EdTech annual conference, Irish Learning
Technology Association, in Cork on the 27th June 2024
Costello, E., Brown, M., Girme, P., Donlon, E., & Farrell, O. (2022). Unpacking the hack: Educational hackathons as emergent pedagogy.
It was also presented at the Innovation in Higher Education Conference, EADTU, in Athens, on the 20th October 2024.
Costello, E., Brown, M., Donlon, E., Farrell, O., & Girme, P. (2022). Hackathons and the challenges of rewilding our pedagogical thinking.
Poster Presentation at the EDEN Conference 2024 in Graz
The EDEN Digital Learning Europe Conference 2024 took place from 16-18 June in Graz.
The conference theme was“Learning in the Age of AI: Towards Imaginative Futures”.
Here you can find the poster and the three comics of our EDEN presentation in June 2024.
Project Presentation at ECER Conference 2023 in Glasgow
The project was presented at the ECER (European Conference of Education Research) Conference 2023 in Glasgow.
The theme of the conference was "The Value of Diversity in Education and Educational Research".
On the 23rd of August, the presentation with the title "The Age of Technology in Education" by Kathrin Otrel-Cass, Iris Mendel, Michael Reicho, Olena Beskorsa & Eamon Costello involved an audience discussion about the HIP atlas. The response and feedback from the audience after the HIP atlas presentation was incorporated into a booklet and visually enhanced.
Keynote at the 2nd Educational Summit
Kathrin Otrel-Cass was invited to be one of the three keynote speakers at the 2nd Educational Research Summit in Vienna, organised by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. She presented the HIP project to an audience of stakeholders, policy makers and educational researchers.
Multiplier Events at the University of Graz
February 17th from 1pm-3.30pm (online)
March 24th from 3pm to 5.30pm
Join us for an exciting event where we share the results and products of our research project, "Hacking Innovative Pedagogy - Digital Education Rewilded." This workshop will introduce a framework for digital pedagogy, showcasing innovative teaching designs and activities that have been developed and transformed into a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).
We invite educators, researchers, and practitioners to collaborate with us in rethinking digital education. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the creation of innovative and responsive digitally supported teaching, understand the interplay between technology and pedagogy and engage with MOOC activities that embody pedagogical values based on the HIP-framework.
Learning goals
Participants will be able to:
- explore and use open access tools to review, reflect their teaching.
- understand on how to support a diversity of learners through digital approaches
- create teaching activities that address the wellbeing of their students
learn about new inspirational activities for university teachers
Click here to register
Multiplier event at DCU from February 20-21 2025
The symposium will take place at Dublin City University and online
A symposium for thinking otherwise about critical AI and post-AI pedagogies of higher education as part of the Erasmus+ Hacking Innovative Pedagogies: Digital Learning Rewilded project.
This symposium aims to bring educators, learners, and interested others together to see how we might co-design futures beyond the calculative and output-obsessed forms which GenAI could funnel us into if we are not careful. It seeks to explore ways of teaching and learning that are based on mutualism, that recognise teaching as distributed activity and that honour our deep imaginative capacities for good (Czerniewicz & Cronin, 2023). We need to craft critical, creative and ethical responses in community to help address the multitude of issues now posed to educational assessment, future jobs, the environment, biases and increases in cyber-crime and deepfakes.
Come and help us think together during this event so as to rewild our pedagogical thinking and futures dreaming (Beskorsa et al, 2023; Lyngdorf et al 2024). In the words of Dr. Ruha Benjamin, we invite you to “invoke stories and speculation as surrogates, playing and poetry as proxies, and myths, visions, and narratives all as riffs on the imagination” (Benjamin, 2024 p. ix).
Multiplier Events in November 2024 at Aalborg University
Hacking Innovative Pedagogy - Digital Education Rewilded
Organised by Assistant Professor Niels Erik Ruan Lyngdorf and Professor Kathrin Otrel-Cass, Graz University, Austria
Join us for two exciting events where we unveil the preliminary results and products of our ongoing research project, "Hacking Innovative Pedagogy - Digital Education Rewilded."
The workshops will introduce a framework for digital pedagogy, showcasing innovative teaching designs and activities that have been developed and transformed into a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).
We invite educators, researchers, and practitioners to collaborate with us in rethinking digital education.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore the creation of innovative and responsive digitally supported teaching, understand the interplay between technology and pedagogy and engage with MOOC activities that embody pedagogical values based on the HIP-framework.
-
Otrel-Cass, Kathrin-Marie; Beskorsa, Olena; Mendel, Iris; Reicho, Michael; Gürentz, MelaniePartnerships in the metaverse.In: European Educational Research Journal. 24. 2025. 23. doi:10.1177/14749041251329140Forschung: Beitrag in Zeitschrift > Originalbeitrag/Fachbeitrag
-
Otrel-Cass, Kathrin; Costello, Eamon; Ruan Lyngdorf, Niels Erik & Mendel, IrisMethods for dreaming about and reimagining digital education.In: International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. 21. 2024. 1-15. doi:10.1186/s41239-024-00463-4Forschung: Beitrag in Zeitschrift > Originalbeitrag/Fachbeitrag
Beskorsa, Olena; Costello, Eamon; Gürentz, Melanie; Lyngdorf, Niels; Mayr, Julia; Mendel, Iris; Otrel-Cass, Kathrin; Reicho, Michael. Innovative Teaching Tools. Hacking innovative Pedagogies (HIP). Graz. Universität Graz. 2025. https://doi.org/10.25364/420.2025.1
Beskorsa, Olena; Mendel, Iris; Fasching, Michael; Otrel-Cass, Kathrin; Costello, Eamon; Lyngdorf, Niels .Erik & ; Brown, Mark
Hacking Innovative Pedagogy: Innovation and Digitisation to Rewild Higher Education. A Commented Atlas. Graz. Universität Graz. 2023. doi.org/10.25364/9783903374249
Otrel-Cass, Kathrin; Gürentz, Melanie; Reicho, Michael; Mendel, Iris; Beskorsa, Olena
Hacking Innovative Pedagogies (HIP): Digital Stories. Graz. Universität Graz. 2024. https://doi.org/10.25364/978-3-903374-33-1
Otrel-Cass, K., Mendel, I., Reicho, M., Costello, E., Beskorsa, O., & Lyngdorf, N. E. R. (2023). Rewilding Higher Education Pedagogy: A Partnership Project. In University of Graz. EERA-European Educational Research Association.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lyngdorf, N. E., Ruggaard, S. T., Otrel-Cass, K., & Costello, E. (2023). The hacking innovative pedagogies (HIP) framework. https://doi.org/10.54337/aau602808725