Ignite Your Everyday Creativity
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Ignite Your Everyday Creativity at Coursera Overview
Duration | 19 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Ignite Your Everyday Creativity at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Approx. 19 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Ukrainian, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Ignite Your Everyday Creativity at Coursera Course details
- Creativity is an essential skill for the 21st Century that is innate in all people and can be nurtured. We constantly need new and better ideas for almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives. The goal of this course is to help you recognize, develop and act upon the creativity that you already possess. We will accomplish this using three methods: b aware, b inspired, and b creative.
- Upon completion of this course participants will:
- Recognize the inherent creativity in yourself and others.
- Identify characteristics of a creative person that relate to yourself.
- Develop creative problem solving skills using the basic elements of the creative process.
- Examine qualities of a creative environment in real world settings.
- Evaluate an idea using the creative product criteria.
Ignite Your Everyday Creativity at Coursera Curriculum
What is Creativity?
Course Introduction
Everyday Creativity Assignment
Magic Wand Wishes
Definition of Creativity
Myths of Creativity
Deferring Judgement
Developmental Trajectory of Creativity
History of International Center for Studies in Creativity
The Four Ps
Brendan Bannon
Katherine Conway-Turner
Brian Nesline
Course Overview
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The Creative Person
Characteristics of the Creative Person
Light Switch Plate Assignment
The Big Three Affective Skills
Playfulness
TRYCycle
The Four Components of Divergent Thinking
Cognitive Style: FourSight
Neuroscience of Creativity
Failure and Making Mistakes
Mindfulness
Progress
Ismet Mamnoon
Benjamin Streeter
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The Creative Press
Dimensions of a Creative Climate
Physical vs. Psychological Press
Culture
Ten Dimensions of a Creative Climate: Idea Time, Idea Support, and Risk-Taking
Ten Dimensions of a Creative Climate: Freedom, Dynamism, & Playfulness and Humor
Ten Dimensions of a Creative Climate: Challenges, Debates and Conflict
Ten Dimensions of a Creative Climate: Trust and Openness
Overcoming Barriers
Todd Benzin
Research Study Opportunity
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The Creative Process
Introduction to the Creative Process
Annoyances
Creative Process
Brainstorming
Divergent Thinking
Convergent Thinking
Incubation
Clarifying Problems
Ideation
PPCo
WISMDI? and How/How
Tim Switalski
Paul Harris
Amy Hartman
Mike Fox
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The Creative Product
Definitions of a Creative Product
Getting your product ready for evaluation
Prototyping
Novelty, Utility, and Surprise
Cheyanne Smith
Nelson David
Julia Hardick
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Putting Ideas into Context
Course Review
Taking it Forward
The Torrance Incubation Model of Creative Teaching and Learning
Krista Goldsmith
Derrick Moore
Erica Swiatek
Scott Acquillino
Laura Ryan
Brad Fuster
Julia Figliotti
Eric Dolph
Lucas Colon
Myo Thant
Marie Mance
Ben Bissell
Rebecca Reilly
Steve Burgeson
Jayme Cellitoci
Mike Filipski
Robin Harris
Phil Vecchione
Jo Yudess
Molly Sanders Clauss
Archana Mishra
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Closing Down
Ruth Richards Resources
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