Fostering Students’ Creativity Through Innovative Learning Tools

Make2Learn: Fostering Engagement and Creativity in Learning through Making

The International Workshop of Making as a Pathway to Foster Joyful Engagement and Creativity in Learning (Make2Learn) aims to discuss the introduction of creative and joyful production of artifacts “maker movement” in the learning processes. A variety of environments have been developed by researchers to introduce making principles to young students. Making principles enable them foster co-crea...

ProActive : Fostering Teachers ' Creativity through Game - Based Learning

Fostering creativity in online collaborative learning environments

The present contribution tackles the issue of creativity in educational contexts and in particular in online collaborative learning environments. The contribution proposes a model to evaluate collaborative learning activities oriented to the development of skills and attitudes underpinning the creative expression. The model is used in this study to evaluate two real online activities, based on ...

Fostering creativity

Scientific progress depends on both conceptual and technological advances, which in turn depend on the creativity of scientists—their ability to produce new insights or ideas. The biological sciences in particular have been revolutionized by insights such as the discovery of the DNA double helix and the invention of the polymerase chain reaction. Various studies suggest that the creative proces...

Perturbative Analogies : fostering creativity in postgraduate research students

This paper argues that an essential point, of postgraduate research supervision, is to enable students to be creative in their pursuit of coming to know things that are as yet not known. The supervisor’s role is not only to teach extant knowledge, skills and values but encouraging students to discover their own. This paper introduces the concept of the perturbative analogy as a strategy whereby...