Creative Problem Solving

What the course focuses on

This Coursera course treats creativity as a working skill, centred on divergent thinking: generating many distinct ideas before judging any of them. Learning happens through creativity-building exercises, short lectures and readings, so the course is as much practice as theory.

Applying it beyond one field

The course is framed around how creativity and innovation feed into your own job and into other disciplines. That makes it relevant to people who do not call themselves creative professionals but regularly face problems with no obvious answer.

Skills it builds

• Generating several options for a single problem.
• Persistence when early ideas fall flat.
• Turning rough concepts into workable solutions.

Because it is exercise-led, the value depends on doing the exercises. Reading the material alone will not build the habit the course aims at.