Thinking about Creativity in Science Education

HCI Education: Innovation, Creativity and Design Thinking

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education needs re-thinking. In this paper, we explore how and what creativity and design thinking could contribute with, if included as a part of the HCI curriculum. The findings from courses where design thinking was included, indicate that design thinking contributed to increased focus on innovation and creativity, as well as prevented too early fixation on a...

The battle for creativity: frontiers in science and science education.

Computational Thinking in Life Science Education

We join the increasing call to take computational education of life science students a step further, beyond teaching mere programming and employing existing software tools. We describe a new course, focusing on enriching the curriculum of life science students with abstract, algorithmic, and logical thinking, and exposing them to the computational "culture." The design, structure, and content o...

Spatial Thinking in Undergraduate Science Education

Spatial ability has been dubbed the "Sleeping Giant" in education in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) (Lubinsky, 2010). We know, from research done over the past several decades, that visuospatial thinking is central to the learning and doing of science (see Ramadas, 2009 for a review), and leads to success in many professions related to science and mathematics (Hegarty, ...

A systematic review of creative thinking/creativity in nursing education.

OBJECTIVE This systematic review aimed to identify the types of nursing course structure that promotes students' creative thinking and creativity. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES Five electronic databases: The British Nursing Index, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Scopus and Ovid Medline. REVIEW METHODS The databases were systematically searched to identify studies that discussed the concept of ...