IA20010

Develop creative confidence and learn how to generate innovative ideas and concepts, individually and in a team environment.

'Creative Thinking & Innovation' at the Innovation Academy will increase your creative thinking skills, problem solving skills, team-working skills, design thinking and lateral thinking abilities through hands on exercises, tasks and challenges.

Over the course of the module, you will actively engage in generating creative solutions to problems and learn methods to evaluate these solutions. You will practice the art of storytelling through pitching ideas and creating and delivering presentations.

As part of this module, you will work in a multidisciplinary team on a real-world problem using innovation tools such as design thinking. You will actively learn good teamworking skills in a live, facilitated environment.

This module is suitable for students from any discipline, and for those with little or no prior experience of creativity or innovation processes, as well as those who know the basics but want to develop further.

Please note that assessment for this module largely takes place during class time - with the exception of a small amount of pre-work, and the individual reflective report which is typically due within two weeks of the module finishing.


Visit for more information: https://www.innovationacademy.ie/courses/ucd-undergraduate-module/

For the online version of this module: Please visit module IA20160 Creativity & Innovation for the Online option of this module.



UCD Innovation Academy

At the UCD Innovation Academy, we are a group of Educator Practitioners with extensive real-world experience as academics, business and social entrepreneurs, tech thinkers, creative professionals and design thinking practitioners.

We take an action-oriented approach to learning, with a combination of individual, group and class tasks and activities, including discussions, presentations and reflection. All of our teaching is grounded in academic rigour, and our focus is on ‘learning from doing’ in a real-world context.

**Enrolment in a UCD Innovation Academy module means a commitment to active participation and engagement, which necessitates attendance at all scheduled classes.**

Notes:
Class Size : We limit our class size to 36 students or less. We require a minimum of 16 participants to ensure enough people for teamwork and a dynamic classroom environment. On very rare occasions, if fewer than 16 registered students register, we will offer students the opportunity to join another class.

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