Online Class: Creative Thinking

no certificate
with CEU Certificate*
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11Lessons
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12Exams &
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228Students
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5Hours
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0.5CEUs
Course Description
Personal creativity is a valuable resource for individuals and teams involved in all industries. It is useful for artists, writers, and students, but also in business and science. This course is designed to serve the interest and needs of all these endeavors and more.
This course offers several creative tools with explanations of how to utilize them. Creativity is an elusive concept, but it can be nurtured and developed. These eleven lessons look at creativity from every possible angle. Prompts to inspire creative ideas are included along with exploration of broader concepts central to creative work.
Naturally creative people will be assisted in reaching their full potential and anyone at any level of creativity can develop the skills to generate more and better ideas. Vertical and lateral thinking are explained including many useful applications for both.
These lessons detail the skills needed to utilize observation, imagination, and abstracting. The process of forming patterns, using analogies, and accessing body thinking are laid out in ways that are easy to understand and use. Mental tools are fully explored, but also emotional tools such as aesthetics and empathizing. These concepts are combined in ways that make for the best possible uses for all types of people in all professions. The course also looks at logic and reason from the standpoint of incorporating creative ventures. After these eleven lessons, users will have a vast resource of tools and processes for developing personal creativity. Each lesson also has brief quizzes to assist with recalling and reviewing key points of the lessons before moving on. There is no other course or resource that takes as extensive of a look at creativity and its uses as this one.
- Completely Online
- Self-Paced
- Printable Lessons
- Full HD Video
- 6 Months to Complete
- 24/7 Availability
- Start Anytime
- PC & Mac Compatible
- Android & iOS Friendly
- Accredited CEUs

Course Lessons
Lesson 1: What Is Personal Creativity? The Basis of Personal Creativity
Lesson 1 Video
Take Survey: Reasons for Taking this Course
Complete Assignment: An Introduction
Complete: Exam 1
Lesson 2: What Are the Creative Tools?
Lesson 2 Video
Review 2 Articles: The Three Basic Principles Behind All Tools for Creative Thinking: Attention, Escape, and Movement; Creativity Tools: 24 Free Online Creative Thinking Tools
Complete: Exam 2
Lesson 3: Vertical Thinking
Lesson 3 Video
Review Article: What Is Vertical Thinking?
Complete: Exam 3
Lesson 4: Lateral Thinking
Lesson 4 Video
Review 2 Articles: Lateral Thinking Puzzles; How to Apply Lateral Thinking to Your Creative Work
Complete: Exam 4
Lesson 5: Using Creative Tools
Lesson 5 Video
Review 3 Articles: SCAMPER; Random Input; What is a Mind Map?
Complete: Exam 5
Lesson 6: More Creative Tools
Lesson 6 Video
Review 2 Articles: Round Robin; How to facilitate a creative brainstorm
Complete: Exam 6
Lesson 7: Observing, Imagining, and Abstracting
Lesson 7 Video
Review 3 Articles: A Fix for Fixation?; The Art of Observing; How to Crank up Your Creativity
Complete: Exam 7
Lesson 8: Forming Patterns, Analogizing, and Body Thinking
Lesson 8 Video
Review 3 Articles: Reaction Formation; How to Use Analogies to Introduce New Ideas; Four Ways to Innovate through Analogies
Complete: Exam 8
Lesson 9: Empathizing, Dimensional Thinking, and Modeling
Lesson 9 Video
Review Article: Why Empathy Is The Force That Moves Business Forward
Complete: Exam 9
Lesson 10: Playing, Transforming, and Synthesizing
Lesson 10 Video
Review 2 Articles: The Benefits of Play for Adults; 25 Ways to Keep Ideas Flowing in Your Workplaces
Complete: Exam 10
Lesson 11: Measuring Creativity
Lesson 11 Video
Take Poll: End of Course Poll
Take Survey: Course Comments
Take Survey: Program Evaluation Follow-up Survey (End of Course)
Complete: Exam 11
Learning Outcomes
- Define what personal creativity is.
- Identify what are the creative tools.
- Describe vertical thinking.
- Describe lateral thinking.
- Summarize using creative tools.
- Describe observing, imagining, and abstracting in creative thinking
- Describe forming patterns, analogizing, and body thinking.
- Summarize empathizing, dimensional thinking, and modeling.
- Describe playing, transforming, and synthesizing in creative thinking.
- Describe methods for measuring creativity, and
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
Additional Course Information

- Document Your Lifelong Learning Achievements
- Earn an Official Certificate Documenting Course Hours and CEUs
- Verify Your Certificate with a Unique Serial Number Online
- View and Share Your Certificate Online or Download/Print as PDF
- Display Your Certificate on Your Resume and Promote Your Achievements Using Social Media

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