Online Class: Creative Thinking

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11

Lessons
14

Exams &
Assignments
5

Hours
average time
0.5

CEUs
59

Students
have taken this course

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.

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Self-Paced
6 Months to Complete
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Accredited CEUs

Universal Class is an IACET Accredited Provider

Course Lessons

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Lesson 1: What Is Personal Creativity? The Basis of Personal Creativity

The utility in creativity is in finding new solutions, generating new ideas, and executing those solutions and ideas in ways that are different from what is expected or repeated. 11 Total Points

Complete Assignment: An Introduction
Complete: Exam 1

Lesson 2: What Are the Creative Tools?

The focus of this lesson will be on recognizing the more basic, but vitally important, mental and emotional tools each person has that can be used to fuel personal creativity in a powerful way. 10 Total Points

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

Vertical thinking drives out distraction, while lateral thinking celebrates it. 10 Total Points

Review 2 Articles: What Is Vertical Thinking?; Vertical Thinking Vs. Lateral Thinking
Complete: Exam 3

Lesson 4: Lateral Thinking

Thinking laterally involves letting go of patterns and comfortable processes. It means giving up the direct approach. 10 Total Points

Review 2 Articles: Lateral Thinking Puzzles; How to Apply Lateral Thinking to Your Creative Work
Complete: Exam 4

Lesson 5: Using Creative Tools

This lesson will focus in detail on four specific, effective, creative tools. SCAMPER, Random Input, Mindmapping, and DO IT are well-documented and well-practiced techniques for generating ideas and digging deep into personal creativity. 12 Total Points

Review 3 Articles: SCAMPER; Random Input; What is a Mind Map?
Complete: Lesson 5 Assignment
Complete: Exam 5

Lesson 6: More Creative Tools

Most of the creative tools are some form of brainstorming. They are meant to draw your ideas, or the groups ideas, out into the open or onto paper, so they can be utilized for whatever task or project you are approaching. 12 Total Points

Review 2 Articles: Round Robin; How to facilitate a creative brainstorm
Complete: Lesson 6 Assignment
Complete: Exam 6

Lesson 7: Observing, Imagining, and Abstracting

The development of personal creativity relies very heavily on the utilization of observation, imagination, and abstraction. 10 Total Points

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

Forming Patterns, Analogizing, and Body Thinking are three ways of engaging the mind, processing information, and developing personal creativity. Each one has the potential to utilize different mental, emotional, and physical tools. 10 Total Points

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

Personal creativity is greatly advanced by the assistance and varying viewpoints of others. All industries stand to benefit from better, and more productive, human interactions. 10 Total Points

Review Article: Why Empathy Is The Force That Moves Business Forward
Complete: Exam 9

Lesson 10: Playing, Transforming, and Synthesizing

The three topics for this lesson are particularly important for the long view of creative work. 10 Total Points

Review 3 Articles: The Benefits of Play for Adults; 25 Ways to Keep Ideas Flowing in Your Workplaces; How to Maximize Productivity Through Fun in the Workplace
Complete: Exam 10

Lesson 11: Measuring Creativity

The desire to measure creativity is vested in the desire to hire and entrust people with work that requires, or at the very least benefits from, a creative mind. 10 Total Points

Take Poll: End of Course Poll
Complete: Exam 11

115

Total Course Points

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