Online Class: Creative Thinking

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11Lessons
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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
Lesson discussions: Reasons for Taking this Course
Complete Assignment: An Introduction
Assessment: Exam 1
Lesson 2: What Are the Creative Tools?
Lesson 2 Video
Assessment: Exam 2
Lesson 3: Vertical Thinking
Lesson 3 Video
Assessment: Exam 3
Lesson 4: Lateral Thinking
Lesson 4 Video
Assessment: Exam 4
Lesson 5: Using Creative Tools
Lesson 5 Video
Assessment: Exam 5
Lesson 6: More Creative Tools
Lesson 6 Video
Assessment: Exam 6
Lesson 7: Observing, Imagining, and Abstracting
Lesson 7 Video
Assessment: Exam 7
Lesson 8: Forming Patterns, Analogizing, and Body Thinking
Lesson 8 Video
Assessment: Exam 8
Lesson 9: Empathizing, Dimensional Thinking, and Modeling
Lesson 9 Video
Assessment: Exam 9
Lesson 10: Playing, Transforming, and Synthesizing
Lesson 10 Video
Assessment: Exam 10
Lesson 11: Measuring Creativity
Lesson 11 Video
Lesson discussions: End of Course Poll; Course Comments; Program Evaluation Follow-up Survey (End of Course)
Assessment: 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.
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
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Student Testimonials
- "What a wonderful class that can really open up the minds of people that just need a little PULL to their creative side." -- Jim B.
- "I found this course very helpful and interesting. It was well organised and I found the practical examples very helpful in understanding the more complex aspects that were being taught. I also liked that it showed a practical understanding of the application of the different approaches; for example, don't set aside play time for a team that is under resource and time pressure. Thank you!" -- Claire R.
- "Interesting ideas. Appreciated the different ways of thinking." -- Sharon M.
- "it was very helpful in learning how to use different thinking strategies in my life." -- Corionna L.
- "This was helpful in giving unique ways to look at and measure creativity." -- Adriana Z.
- "The course was good, it took some time to understand the work but I enjoyed it." -- Amber W.
- "I enjoyed participating in this course greatly. Thank you." -- Kolleen D.
- "This class was very helpful." -- Chris M.
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