Creativity is understood as an activity that leads to the creation of something different from existing things or did not exist before. Creativity, a term, changes its meaning depending on distribution axiological accents, in particular, whether value belongs sphere absolute, selfless, utilitarian values.
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Purpose: The study was conducted to determine the factors affecting creative capacity of young lecturers in Vietnamese higher education system. Theoretical framework: Creativity is creation new and helpful ideas field science, art, business, everyday activities (Amabile, 1996; Amabile, 1997). According Woodman et al. (1993), creativity products, services, ideas, procedures, or processes that ar...

Most studies of human creativity have focused on individuals, assuming that creativity can be defined with respect to the characteristics, processes or activities of extraordinary people. Computational models of creativity have often inherited this assumption and emphasised generative processes to the exclusion of considering social or cultural aspects. This paper presents work to extend comput...

WHY INVESTIGATE CREATIVITY? To make a better world, correcting mistakes is not enough. We need positive ambition that motivates us to go on. Creativity (i.e., the process of generating something new and useful), which offers the most exciting models of life, is such a source of motivation. Without thinking about fame or prestige, creativity makes people want to change something in the world. Th...

There is an increasing volume of literature theorizing on how social creativity can be fostered in the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environment, however, a scant amount of research has been actually carried out to investigate how the dynamics and creative cognitive processes taking place in the CSCL environment create communities of design. The scarcity of readily usable ins...

Abstract The main objective of teaching is to make sure that the students learn the required material. From this viewpoint, it seems reasonable to reward students when they learn this material. In other words, it seems reasonable to assign the student’s rewards (such as grades) based on their level of knowledge. However, experiments show that, contrary to this seemingly intuitive conclusion, we...

Secure and trusted distribution of multimedia content is a key issue for content creators, content providers and distributors, as they want to fight piracy and receive the revenues derived from their creativity work. The provision of trust and protection has not been already solved by the existing multimedia distribution mechanisms. Such mechanisms lie on proprietary architectures and tools, an...

Prosecutorial discretion is a problem that most scholars attack from the outside. What forces should constrain or guide prosecutors to pursue the right numbers and types of cases, rank them well, treat them equally, behave ethically, invest appropriate effort, and seek fitting punishments? Most scholars favor external institutional solutions, such as ex ante legislation or ex post judicial and ...

In this work-in-progress report we present a design creativity exercise program which addresses cognitive elements of creativity and an affective model, as an effort to provide learners the opportunity of enhancing design creativity in a personalized adaptive manner. The personalized needs in specific elements and dynamically changing affective states are addressed in the creativity exercise pr...

The creative and innovative traditions in various developing countries have been masked by historical misrepresentations by outsiders as well as by pedagogic and policy-induced blinders domestically. From an early age students learn the major inventions made by Europeans, and rightly so, but seldom do they learn about grassroots or higher level inventions and innovations developed by local indi...