The Adobe Education Exchange is a library of lesson plans and activities that leverage the use of Adobe products in a wide range of disciplines . It’s a really great resource for exploring assignments in your subject area, or for when you know a tool you want to use (Express), but aren’t sure how to connect it to your subject. There are also hundreds of other assignments built around using software like Photoshop, Premiere, Rush, InDesign, etc.

Click here to see the resource library with the filters for “Creative Cloud Express” and “Higher Education” turned on. You can also further narrow the results down by selecting your subject area.

Adobe also has a self-paced Creative Educator professional development program. It’s two courses that will take about ten hours in total (One on creativity in learning more generally, one on creativity specifically in higher education courses). The modules talk about best practices and recommendations for incorporating creativity into a range of learning experiences, and each course ends with you creating a digital ‘artifact’ to reflect on your teaching practices, plans, or goals. If you’re interested in learning about reasons to use creative digital tools in your class, it’s a good place to start. (I’ve completed both courses, and while Adobe‘s creative evangelism does have its limits, I found the courses useful for thinking about the ways creativity can be incorporated into teaching and learning. You also get fancy digital badges when you complete the courses, which unfortunately cannot be used to challenge the Elite Four.)