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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Creative Thinking: Techniques and Tools for Success by Imperial College London

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    About the Course

    In today’s ever-growing and changing world, being able to think creatively and innovatively are essential skills. It can sometimes be challenging
    to step back and reflect in an environment which is fast paced or when you are required to assimilate large amounts of information. Making
    sense of or communicating new ideas in an innovative and engaging way, approaching problems from fresh angles, and producing novel
    solutions are all traits which are highly sought after by employers. This course will equip you with a ‘tool-box’, introducing you to a selection of
    behaviours and techniques that will augment your innate creativity. Some of the tools are suited to use on your own and othe...
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    May 29, 2020

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    I enjoyed this course right from the start. The videos are relatable and exciting as so were the reading exercises to get a better knowledge of how to think and easy, fast steps to get to those ideas.

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    Jul 22, 2020

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    Amazing to find out that I have been using the Six thinking Hats tool all my adult life and I wasn't even aware of its existence! As an Event Manager, I would definitely be applying many of the tools.

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    Jun 11, 2020

    This course shows many tools that can be useful and handy in personal and professional lives! I love how Peter explains the creative mind and ideas, and I love how the group demonstrates how the tools work.

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    Jun 2, 2021

    The course offered a lot of new perspectives on creativity. The language used is clear and concise. I really love the elaborate examples mentioned by the instructor. I hope to learn from you again. Thanks!

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    May 12, 2020

    An excellent course for anyone interested in creativity and useful tools to get more ideas. I was able to readily use some of the strategies with my students after being introduced to them in this course.

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    May 12, 2020

    It was a highly organised and structured course that exposed me to myriad methods of problem solving. The best part was the engaging and thought provoking content along with easy to follow instructions.

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    May 23, 2020

    This Course is Really powerful - You Gonna increase in your Criativity Thinks - Professor Peter Childs is really amazing and lovely person - It's a very objective course and good tools about Criativity

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    By Željan L

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    May 1, 2020

    This course gave me an awesome explanation of methods for which I didn't know their name but was using them in everyday life. It's a must for those who want to enhance their skills and capabilities.

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    By Anik G

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    May 9, 2020

    Had lots of fun doing this course.Learnt a lot of techniques regarding brainstorming ,TRIZ,Six hats(my favourite) and morphological analysis.I hope I could apply this knowledge in my field

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    Jun 4, 2020

    This course will potentially and effectively augment and improve my analytical and thinking pattern and enhance my creativity ability to develop new ideas and metaphor as well as analogies.

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    Jul 20, 2020

    This is the course for which I must say if someone did this they will be the upcoming creator of many things in life with lots more innovative things in daily life or in professional life.

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    By MANISH K

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    May 28, 2020

    Many types of CREATIVE thinking techniques learned with ease:

    1. Different types of Brainstorming Techniques,

    2. Six Thinking Hats Technique,

    3. Morphological analysis,

    4. TRIZ,

    5. SCAMPER

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    By shilpa

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    May 27, 2020

    I really thankful to IMPERIAL college of LONDON to give the special opportunity during COVID-19 to utilise our time to completing the course and actually know the techniques of teaching

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    May 24, 2020

    The content and syllabus is absolutely amazing. The professors instructions are clearly conveyed and very easy to understand. Overall there is a lot to take and learn from this course.

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    By Kishore S

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    Jul 25, 2020

    Course is really fantastic. Provokes nice ideas with different creative methodologies. These techniques can be used in daily life to nurture individual self development and confidence

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    May 13, 2020

    I learned a lot; the tools are practical and can be applied to a lot of situations! For once, it is a course you can really integrate into your daily life, professional like personal.

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    May 31, 2020

    This course provides many techniques that make you generate new ideas to solve some problem effectively. If you want to be a manager, inventor or something, this course is necessary.

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    May 13, 2020

    This course was very informative and interactive. Rather than just totally theory based, there were lot of practical activities throughout which helped in gaining good understanding.

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    By Arpana K

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    May 10, 2020

    The tools and techniques taught in the course are very useful for coming with a large number of ideas to solve a problem. It is directly helpful in improving my professional skill.

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    By Omkar P

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    Jun 12, 2020

    Thankyou so much Sir Peter Childs for sharing your valuable knowledge about Creativity and its types. This will really help me to implement your knowledge in the future. Thankyou.

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    By Powsali G

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    May 18, 2020

    This is an amazing course. It does not matter if you are a student or entrepreneur or a homemaker, you can definitely use the techniques described here to find creative solutions.

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    By Mahinthorn P

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    Feb 4, 2021

    This is one of the courses you should take in order to realise that you too can be creative. This will help you in your career be it in the academia or in the corporate world!!!

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    Jul 19, 2020

    Its very nice course to enhance our creativity. After completing this course I found out several changes in myself for solving any problem creatively. It is really best course.

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    By Tee Y B

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    May 22, 2020

    Through this course, I learnt that creativity is not after all an abstract. There are various tools or methods which can enable anyone to develop the creativity skills in them.

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    By Sri T B

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    Jun 2, 2020

    This course helped me in building my way of thinking towards different problems in different ways. This course is really good for all the beginner life long learners also.

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    By Mukesh M

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    Jan 17, 2021

    It is a course which defines creativity and also helps to re think what has been done in the creative aspect. Well articulated but activties can be little bit more clear.

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