12048

12048

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (20 minutes, no formal paper)

Jennifer Harrison, Kaplan University, USA, jharrison@kaplan.edu Crystal Hofegartner, Kaplan University, USA, chofegartner@kaplan.edu
 * Creative Infusion: When Academia Meets Creativity**

This general session seeks to explore the incorporation of creativity in online courses, specifically focusing on creative approaches to course design in the humanities field. As a point of emphasis, the presenters will use case studies from three courses at Kaplan University, “American Women,” “History of Medicine,” and “Days that Changed the World,” each of which the presenters designed as well. As part of this goal, the presenters seek to consider the importance of considering creative implementation in course design and teaching, using course assignment examples such as an immigrant writing a letter home after arrival in the United States and an experiment in virtual isolation (i.e., no electronic devices). This presentation will also consider the significance of learning styles from both the perspective of a course designer and an instructor, as well as how social networking tools such as Twitter can also enhance student interaction and both accessibility to, and comprehension of, humanities course content. This presentation aims to encourage conversation regarding how, with useful and comprehensible course content and unlimited access to information, it is possible to cultivate creativity in online undergraduate courses, and subsequently, empower students, particularly in humanities courses, in the pursuit of degree and career advancement.

All Audiences online creativity teaching course design