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Arcgis Storymaps Facilitates Student Learning, Daniela D'Eugenio, Guillermo Pupo Pernet

TFSC Publications and Presentations

Second Annual University of Arkansas Teaching and Learning Symposium: Sharing Teaching Ideas

As a tool that allows for the creation of a geospatial multimedia story, ArcGIS StoryMaps facilitates students’ learning both inside and outside of the classroom. This interactive software offers students the opportunity to express their understanding of an input and elaborate upon it in original and personal ways using various sources. In this presentation, we will illustrate how ArcGIS can be used successfully in an advanced Italian language class to engage students with a fable by Somali-Italian acclaimed writer Igiaba Scego, Prestami le ali. Examples of scaffolded …

Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into Creativity Education: Developing A Creative Problem-Solving Course For Higher Education, Selma Dawani

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

This project aims to develop an introductory college course that integrates Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process. Drawing on best practices for teaching CPS and the latest research of AI, the project outcomes are prototypes of a Master Course Development Document, Student Syllabus, and Lesson Plan with accompanying PowerPoint slides. The course will equip students with the knowledge and skills to apply AI techniques to the CPS process. This project aims to begin to bridge the gap between AI and CPS education, preparing students for the demands of the modern workforce while fostering interdisciplinary thinking.

Enhancing Creativity In Organizational Teams: Development Of The Spark Program, Kimberly Morehead

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

Organizational teams have experienced unprecedented change since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic—such as frequent changes in leadership, increased turnover, and shifting to full-time remote work—which have impacted their ability to form lasting creative connections. This project addresses the challenge of the above changes by introducing a creativity-boosting program called The Spark, designed to help organizational teams remain inspired, connected, and energized throughout times of change. Following an overview of the rationale for this project and a review of the pertinent literature, the process plan is provided in detail. The project resulted in a program structure based on the Torrance …

Developing A Bachelor’S Level Creativity Course Outline Through An Understanding Of Neuroscience, Juliette M. Ripley-Dunkelberger

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

This project documents the creative process of developing a bachelor’s level basics of creativity course. Through conversations with instructors who teach creativity courses, learning models and approaches in adult education, and analysis of lower division student’s needs, the course focus was established as a basics of creativity course based in an understanding of the neuroscience of creativity. Learning goals, objectives, activities, and assessments were developed for lower division students.

Fostering Creativity In Education Including Natural Environments: A Course On Creativity For Children In Colombia, Tatiana Ortiz-Pradilla

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

This project is a contribution to the field of creativity and education. The project aimed to connect the research-based knowledge on how natural environments enhance creativity and put it in the service of creativity education for children. The main objective was to design a prototype of a course outline of a continuing education course on creativity that leverages the knowledge of the connection between creativity and natural environments for children between 7 and 12 years old in Medellín, Colombia, South America.

Doodling As Self-Expression: Building Self-Efficacy In Normally Functioning Adults, Journey Coward

Art Therapy | Theses and Dissertations

While previous studies identify doodling as a useful educational tool, this study sought to determine if doodling can build creative or emotional self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is an individual’s belief in their own capacity to express behaviors necessary to attain specific performance goals. The current study also sought to determine if doodling can be a form of self-care. Research collected was quantitative and qualitative using surveys to measure both creative and emotional self-efficacy along with a doodling activity. Ten participants were recruited through convenience sampling on social media and were included in the study after meeting the inclusion criteria of identifying themselves …

Teaching To The Test Or Limiting Students?, Victoria Rivera

English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World

The purpose of this paper is to shine light on the way the school systems have been teaching and how it is affecting students in a negative way. It focuses mainly on teaching to the test and how it stops students from learning creatively and also does not let teachers teach the way they might want to. It also shows how this is a wicked problem and is more than a small school system issue. This impacts students, teachers, and the society we live in. The results of this research was that there were a lot of other authors that …

The Role Of Play In Fostering Creativity And Purpose, Caitlin Quarrington

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

While play is a universal experience that transcends age, discipline, and location, it is often understood to be a juvenile experience and is not intentionally pursued into adulthood. However, play has positive benefits for people of all ages; it can drive intrinsic motivation, increase creativity, and build a sense of meaning and purpose in both individuals and teams. Building on existing understandings of play and creativity, this Synthesis develops a transdisciplinary Play-Flow Intervention Model that leverages play as an intervention at two critical points during the flow cycle to alleviate struggle and expedite movement towards flow. Integrating play during periods …

Creativity-Integrated Art History: A Pedagogical Framework, Alysha Meloche, Jen Katz-Buonincontro

Art History Pedagogy & Practice

Art history offers a unique opportunity for students to encounter real, historical examples of the creative process in action. By showing examples of the complex process through which artwork is created, art history classes can provide emulative examples for the next generation of innovative designers, artists, historians, educators, and creative thinkers. Art history has a tradition of teaching Big-C creativity principles by highlighting creative products and individuals. Therefore, the art object is emphasized at the expense of unpacking the process and everyday, or mini-c, creativity of the work. At a time when the field of Art History is beginning to …

Designing A Social Architecture For Personal Leadership In The 21st Century: The Autonomous Realization Tetrad (Art), Bobby Ricketts

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

Rather than summarizing the extent of my learning as a graduate student in the University of Massachusetts Boston Critical and Creative Thinking Master of Arts Program, this work instead illustrates a starting point for how I intend to apply my learning moving forward. Various characteristics in the writing do, however, reflect influences from all CCT courses taken. Primarily using personal narrative, I discuss various personal and professional experiences which have inspired self-developed creative methodologies. The methodologies, and learning derived from using them, are folded into an inquiry regarding Futures Studies, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Mastery, and Flow. Inspired by these …

Exploring Strategies For Teaching Creatively Online, Conny Van Der Wouw

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

The way we learn and teach is changing. There is more emphasis on collaboration and personalization of the learning. Teaching online is becoming common. For my Master’s project I have developed a product that will help designing and delivering teaching programs creatively through the use of online learning opportunities. The product discusses the opportunities and challenges of a creative climate when teaching online and provides strategies to develop creativity during the online learning process. It is developed with the use of the Torrance Incubation Model of Teaching and Learning (TIM) and Ekvall’s ten dimensions of a creative climate. This paper …

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: May 10, 2011, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Directors met in the Library Conference Room of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in Oklahoma City.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: April 8, 2011, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Directors met in the Library Conference Room of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in Oklahoma City.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: March 11, 2011, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Directors met in the Library Conference Room of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in Oklahoma City.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: January 14, 2011, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Directors met in the Library Conference Room of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in Oklahoma City.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: December 10, 2010, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Directors met in the Library Conference Room of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in Oklahoma City.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: November 12, 2010, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Directors met in the Library Conference Room of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in Oklahoma City.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: August 13, 2010, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Directors met in the Library Conference Room of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in Oklahoma City.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: November 18, 2005, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Directors met in the Library Conference Room of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in Oklahoma City.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: June 26, 2006, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Directors met in the Conference Room of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in Oklahoma City.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: March 24, 2006, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Directors met in the Conference Room of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in Oklahoma City on March 24, 2006.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: January 20, 2006, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Directors met in the Library Conference Room of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in Oklahoma City.

Agenda Davinci Institute: July 15, 2005, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Agenda of the meeting of The DaVinci Institute on July 15, 2005.

Summary Of Executive Committee Planning Retreat: June 17, 2005, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Summary of Executive Committee Planning Retreat: June 17, 2005

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: May 20, 2005, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

A meeting of the Board of Directors was held Friday, April 15, 2005 in the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE) Library Conference Room.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: May 20, 2005, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

A meeting of the Board of Directors was held Friday, May 20, 2005 in the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE) Library Conference Room.

Agenda Davinci Institute: April 15, 2005, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

genda of the meeting of The DaVinci Institute on April 15, 2005 at the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: March 25, 2005, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

A meeting of the Board of Directors was held Friday, March 25, 2005 in the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE) Library Conference Room.

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: February 18, 2005, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

A meeting of the Board of Directors was held on February 18, 2005 at the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE) in the Conference Room.

Agenda Executive Committee: January 21, 2005, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

Agenda of the meeting of the Executive Committee of The DaVinci Institute on January 21, 2005.