The document discusses promoting creativity in higher education. It provides frameworks and techniques to help students develop their creative potential, including divergent and convergent thinking, the Create Process, and Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving. Specific techniques covered are brainstorming, mind mapping, analogy, SCAMPER, and group techniques like Six Thinking Hats and Lotus Blossom. The author has created a website to share resources on cutting edge research and structured activities to foster creativity in both individuals and groups.
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1. Creativity in Higher Education: helping students achieve their true creative potential David J. Adams UK Centre for Bioscience and Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds
2. Students and creativity Solve problems creatively Work creatively with existing ideas Generate ideas
4. Creative frameworks The Create Process (http://www.diegm.uniud.it/create/) Predisposition: work environment, culture External mapping Internal mapping Idea generation Evaluation
9. Creative frameworks Diverge 1 Objective Finding Diverge Converge Converge Converge Converge Diverge Diverge 6 Acceptance Finding Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (CPS) 2 Fact Finding 3 Problem Finding 4 Idea Finding 5 Solution Finding Steps Stages 1 - 3 Identifying and Clarifying the Challenge 4 - 5 Generating and Evaluating Ideas 6 Implementing solutions
10. Whole brain thinking DIVERGENT or RIGHT BRAIN or K A L E I D O S C O P E THINKING Intuition Imagination Questioning Re-arranging New perspectives CONVERGENT or LEFT BRAIN THINKING Logical Rational Selection Evaluation +
13. Creativity in the Biosciences website Cutting edge research (short films) Promotion of creativity in individuals Group chat and Fridge 馨温乙稼艶岳壊 Structured group sessions
14. Promoting creativity in individuals Analogies Brainstorming and mind-mapping Challenging assumptions Clich 辿 s and proverbs Curiosity Google-storming Idea dump Importance of a fresh eye Personal analogy Synonyms SCAMPER
22. S.C.A.M.P.E.R. (a checklist of questions) S ubstitute WHAT ELSE COULD WE DO/USE INSTEAD? C ombine BLEND METHODS/MATERIALS/IDEAS? A dapt COPY EXISTING APPROACH IN NEW CONTEXT? M odify CHANGE MEANING, SIZE, FREQUENCY etc.? P ut to other uses RE-PURPOSE MATERIALS? E liminate DIVIDE, SEPARATE, SUBTRACT, DELETE? R earrange/ R everse DO THE OPPOSITE, WORK BACKWARDS?
23. S.C.A.M.P.E.R. (a checklist of questions) S ubstitute P ut to other uses C ombine E liminate A dapt R earrange / R everse M odify
24. Entrepreneurship in H.E. conference and S.C.A.M.P.E.R. S ubstitute entrepreneurs in schools C ombine with research-led teaching A dapt whats happening in other countries? M odify entrepreneurship in HE and industry P ut to other uses advertise new initiatives E liminate focus on e.g. bioscience R earrange/ R everse seek students views