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Learn the fundamentals of how design thinking and creativity can be used to enable innovation.
Innovation matters to everyone, including managers in small or large organizations, start-up entrepreneurs, those in government roles, or teachers.
This course looks at how individuals and organizations use creativity and design thinking skills to identify and choose opportunities that enable innovation. Creative problem solving skills are developed and enhanced through a range of real world activities. An overview of design thinking tools is provided to help students understand design thinking as a problem solving approach. Ideas developed through these processes are then applied to a customer discovery approach to understand their value in the market place.
Week 1: What is creativity, innovation and design
The core concepts of creativity, design and innovation
Week 2: Creativity Myths
Mistaken beliefs about creativity and why they're dangerous
Week 3: Creative people, creative organizations
Ideas and tools to help both people and organisations work more creatively
Week 4: Impact and purpose
Measuring impact and the value created through creativity
Week 5: Design thinking for innovation
The role of empathy in the design thinking process and the tools we can use
Week 6: How do we learn what people want?
How we ensure learning fits people's needs
Week 7: Experiments
Designing and executing experiments for value creation
Week 8: The design sprint
Principles of a design sprint and how to make it happen
Week 9: Distributed creativity
How diversity and collaboration through networks support the creativity process
Week 10: Moving from ideas to impact
Bring the ideas presented in this course together and show how organizations can create impact from ideas
I want to say I'm delighted by this course. It was an enlightening experience. Moreover, I'm willing to aim for Micromaster credential.
As this is my first online course, I'm pretty surprised about my peers and how you can learn from people around the globe.
Learner - Miguel Gonzalez
Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners residing in one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. edX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners residing in one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. edX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
