1. Chapter 14 E-Learning to Build Thinking Skills

2. Definition of Creative Thinking Skills “The production of original, potentially workable, solutions to novel, ill-defined problems of relatively high complexity.” Scott, Levitz, and Mumford (2004)

3. Can Creative Thinking Skills be Trained? More effective in organizational settings than in academic settings Yes!

4. What type of training program is better?

5. Recommended Guideline #1 Use job-specific cases as a context in which to teach problem-solving skills

6. Recommended Guideline #2 Conduct an analysis on how experts would solve a job specific problem and base the lesson on their process

7. Recommended Guideline #3 Require learners to articulate the mental processes they use when problem solving

8. Recommended Guideline #4 Make the expert’s thinking process explicit and available to learners

9. Question???