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- Title: Creativity: Use It Effectively to Enhance Your Online Teaching (Try This)(Column)
- Author : Errol Craig Sull
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
Description
Sometimes, you get lucky. For some time, I have wanted to write a column on the use of creativity in teaching online courses. Not only have I used it very effectively within my distance learning courses, but I've talked with numerous online instructors who found its proper implementation to be invaluable. And so I happened to mention this to a friend, Cathy Skora, a master's student in the prestigious International Center for Studies of Creativity program at State University College at Buffalo, and I was quickly given the missing pieces I needed to make such a column happen. The information she shared with me allowed for a true melding of academic research and experiential teaching, and I saw the use of creativity in my courses become more productive. Thus what follows is just downright cool--and extremely practical--when it comes to the use of creativity in distance learning pedagogy. Most folks, of course, tend to use the term creativity in a general, "Hey-I'm-the-creative-type" context, understanding, perhaps, that being creative means going from working within what is to pushing beyond to something not yet defined. In this spirit--when done effectively--students become more engaged, are more interested in learning, have fun, and more concretely embrace the subject matter. But once the theory and practice of creativity is understood--wow! These outcomes can be brought to an even higher level.