Open AccessFostering group creativity through design thinking projects
Author(s) -
Jeongmin Lee,
Yeonji Jung,
Seonghye Yoon
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
knowledge management and e-learning: an international journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.526
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2309-5008
pISSN - 2073-7904
DOI - 10.34105/j.kmel.2019.11.020
Subject(s) - creativity , psychology , promotion (chess) , interpersonal communication , flexibility (engineering) , artifact (error) , mathematics education , knowledge management , pedagogy , computer science , social psychology , management , neuroscience , politics , political science , law , economics
The purpose of this study was to develop team projects in design thinking, for promotion and examination with the cultivation of group creativity. Research was conducted during the spring of 2017, with sixteen graduate students. Using artifact-based interviews, we analyzed the development of group creativity during the five stages of design thinking: understanding knowledge, empathizing, sharing perspectives, generating ideas, and prototyping. Results showed that analytical thinking was present throughout the overall project, while factors related to group creativity (such as learner orientation, interpersonal understanding, and flexibility) were observed at different rates as the project progressed. Results suggest that such pedagogical strategies as idea checking and training for applicability are necessary in order to foster group creativity.