Designing Learning Environments for Creativity in Engineering Education

Abstract

This paper proposes a framework for designing and improving learning environment for creativity in engineering. The framework consists of the following three components: (1) instructional design based on knowledge from psychology, (2) development of systems for supporting creative activities, and (3) objective evaluation of learning results related to creativity. Based on that framework, we design and practice a program of robot based course for freshmen at Chubu University. As a result, we confirm the following two advantages of our framework: (1) learners' idea generation skills were improved and (2) their meta-cognitive activities were also activated.