Advanced Creative Thinking and AI: Tools for Success
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Advanced Creative Thinking and AI: Tools for Success at Coursera Overview
Duration | 8 hours |
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Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Advanced |
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Credential | Certificate |
Advanced Creative Thinking and AI: Tools for Success at Coursera Highlights
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- 6 quizzes
Advanced Creative Thinking and AI: Tools for Success at Coursera Course details
- Creativity is important in nearly every facet of life. Advances in neuro-science, computing and psychology, along with developments in other domains and cross-disciplinary areas have resulted in ever increasing understanding of creativity
- This module will explore some advanced approaches to creativity such as the use of analogy and metaphor, various thinking styles and the role of artificial intelligence
- A framework called the creativity diamond is used to guide the selection of approach to creativity relevant to your project or activity
Advanced Creative Thinking and AI: Tools for Success at Coursera Curriculum
Week 1
Introduction to creativity and the many approaches to creativity
The creativity diamond
Biomimicry
Interview with Mark Sanders MAS Design
Replicate, reason, relate
Microstructures for Advanced Surface Effects
Biomimicry and ultrahydrophobicity example ideas
The ‘zipperless’ zip story
Example case studies
Biomimicry benefits
Quiz
Biomimicry and ultrahydrophobicity
Biomimicry and trichomes
Week 2
Use of analogy
Analogical representation
Metaphor
Familiar metaphors
Cognitive process of analogy
Forced analogy
Analogy relation
Analogical Creative Process
Definitions and differences
Quiz
Your turn 1
Your turn 2
Week 3
Thinking and creativity
Different people think in different ways
Critical and Analytical Thinking
Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
Abductive reasoning
Creative Thinking
Taking an Evidence Based Approach
Taking an Evidence Based Approach
Quiz
Creative Person Survey
Week 4
Creativity Diamond
Design Thinking Origins
Typical activities in design thinking
7Es of Design Thinking
Take-away café user insights
Design Thinking in Practice
Omlet
Concrete Canvas
Farewill
Example on user insights
Week 5
AI and creativity
Interview on AI - Heng Gu – Creative Technologist
Interview on AI – Liuqing Chen – Professor Zhejiang University
Interview on AI – Professor Pan Wang - TU Delft
Interview on AI – Professor Ji Han – University of Exeter
B-Link example
AI Overview
AI logo
AI music
Quiz - AI generated
Can an AI system be creative?
B-Link – Your turn
Week 6
The fundamentals of creativity
The Creativity Diamond Tool Selection
Creativity and its link to innovation and wrap up
The creativity diamond
E-tivity - Your opportunity to present ideas
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