The University of Queensland offers 10 weeks Online Course on Design Thinking and Creativity for Innovation. Online registrations are open on the official website.
About the Course
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.
What you’ll learn?
- The nature of human creativity and innovation,
- How creativity and design thinking help business to solve complex problems,
- The process and tools of design thinking,
- Different creativity and design processes and how it can be used to generate better ideas,
- How to use a variety of tools to help validate your ideas to improve their chances for impact,
- The use of design sprints to integrate the different elements of the course into a systematic method for generating and testing new ideas,
- How to build organizations that support creative and innovative thinking.
Syllabus
- 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.
Prerequisites
- English writing/reading proficiency (required)
- General knowledge of business processes (recommended)
Duration
10 weeks (8–10 hours per week).
To enroll in this course, click the below link.
Online Course on Design Thinking and Creativity for InnovationNote: Noticebard is associated with edX through an affiliate programme.
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