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Heather J. Hether – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2023
Problem-solving is an essential undergraduate learning outcome that also supports students' professional success. The creative problem-solving model (CPS) (Isaksen et al., 2011) facilitates the development of these skills and aligns well with the scope of public relations (PR). The current study investigates student perceptions of an assignment…
Descriptors: Creativity, Problem Solving, Undergraduate Students, Outcomes of Education
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Andrew S. Taylor – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2024
This essay shows how one professor teaching "Introduction to Buddhism" sought to counteract his students' view that Chinese and Tibetan forms of Buddhism represented a deviation from a "pure" Indian Buddhism rather than worthwhile forms of creativity and religiosity in themselves. A simple comparative assignment that asked a…
Descriptors: French, English, Translation, Singing
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Miller, Angie L. – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
This study explores how exposure to creative coursework during one's education can influence a variety of educational, career, and community involvement outcomes for arts alumni. Data were drawn from over 40,000 undergraduate-level arts alumni from the 2015, 2016, and 2017 administrations of the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP). A…
Descriptors: Creativity, Predictor Variables, Outcomes of Education, Alumni
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Chekurov, Sergei; Wang, Meng; Salmi, Mika; Partanen, Jouni – Education Sciences, 2020
The purpose of this article is to present a design for additive manufacturing assignment focused on creativity rather than functionality and to analyze its results (N = 70) acquired during five years. The assignment teaches the unique advantages of additive manufacturing to engineering students and encourages learning from failure to achieve…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Manufacturing, Computer Peripherals
Lori Anne Palmer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Art Appreciation is often a course that undergraduate students take to meet their general education requirements. However, many students have little interest or value of art due to a lack of previous art experiences and often choose the course because they feel it will be relatively easy. This qualitative, naturalistic inquiry focused on students'…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Appreciation, Teaching Methods, Aesthetics
Carver, Evan H.; Collins, Sofia – Geography Teacher, 2020
Creativity is a valued trait across many disciplines, including business, education, math, and the arts, and has been positively associated with intelligence, self-esteem, and an increase in behavioral and emotional flexibility. However, creativity has proven difficult to precisely define, as is evidenced by its varying definitions between…
Descriptors: Creativity, Study Abroad, Films, Geography Instruction
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Holbrook, Robert L., Jr.; Comer, Debra R. – Management Teaching Review, 2017
Creativity is more important than ever in today's knowledge-based economy. Although many students doubt their own creativity, very few exercises are designed to help them access this ability. We believe that self-expression and self-reflection are important for understanding personal creative ability. Jung introduced the mandala to promote these…
Descriptors: Creativity, Self Expression, Art Activities, Psychological Patterns
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Boubekeur, Sihem – Arab World English Journal, 2021
The Reader-Response Theory considers the learner as an active participant in extracting meaning from a literary work depending on his/her prior experience. Teaching literature critically allows the reader to create a sense, and compare the previous experience with the written text. Second-year students cannot decode and scrutinize a short academic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reader Response, Literary Genres, Second Language Learning
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Rothe, Lucian – NECTFL Review, 2023
Teacher-scholars have called upon fellow language educators to redevelop curricula at all proficiency levels to portray the lived experiences of target language (TL) speakers. This article presents a semester-long project that contributes to developing diverse teaching materials for college-level learners at the novice level. Via an ePortfolio…
Descriptors: Diversity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Phillips, Margaret; Zwicky, Dave – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2017
How might engineering technology students make use of patent information in the engineering design process? Librarians analyzed team project reports and personal reflections created by students in an undergraduate mechanical engineering technology design course, revealing that the students used patents to consider the patentability of their ideas,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, Engineering Education, Engineering Technology, Design
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Kan, Koon-Hwee – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2021
This article features a creative fabrication project assigned to participants in a short-term education abroad program at a Midwestern state university in the US. The Get-in-Touch assignment merged intercultural research and studio work to enrich and transform participants' travel experience in China. Several aesthetic stances (mimetic,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Assignments, Studio Art, Travel
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Zellner, Nicolle – Journal of Astronomy & Earth Sciences Education, 2018
An introductory Astronomy survey course is often taken to satisfy a college graduation requirement for non-science majors at colleges around the United States. In this course, material that can be broadly categorized into topics related to "the sky", "the Solar System", "the Galaxy", and "cosmology" is…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Nonmajors, Astronomy
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Perkins, Tanya – Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2019
In the writing classroom, collaborative learning often takes the form of coauthoring, peer workshops, or critique sessions. While these are useful, what other active-learning approaches might be effective, particularly in light of the range of media with which students are increasingly familiar? World building--creation of an…
Descriptors: Creativity, Criticism, Cooperative Learning, Active Learning
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Bratslavsky, Lauren; Wright, Anna; Kritselis, Alex; Luftig, David – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2019
This study begins with the assumption that visual and related literacies are essential frameworks to foster not only students' learning of visual communication principles, but also 21st century skills such as creative problem solving and self-directed learning. We focus on assignment directions as a particular instructional component. In contrast…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Critical Thinking, Computer Software, Student Attitudes
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Flynn, Nicole – CEA Forum, 2018
This essay describes an adaptable, multimodal assignment in which students create a comic in lieu of a traditional essay or exam. I outline the theoretical and practical value of this assignment and provide a detailed description of its implementation in two different literature courses: an introduction to the major course and a course on…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Assignments, Literature, Cultural Pluralism
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