Design and Development of Learning Environment to Enhance Creative Thinking and Innovation Skills for Teacher Training in the 21st Century

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to design and develop the learning environment to enhance creative thinking and innovation skills of pre-service teachers in the 21st century. The developmental research (Type I): design and development process was employed in this study. Several methods used were document analysis, survey and case study. The following procedures were taken: (1) studying principles and theories, (2) synthesizing the designing framework, (3) designing and developing the learning environment based on above mentioned designing framework, and (4) evaluating the efficiency of the learning environment to enhance creative thinking and innovation skills. The result revealed that: 1) The learning environment comprises of: (1) Problem base, (2) Resources, (3) Related cases, (4) Mind tools, (5) Creative thinking and innovation lab, (6) Collaboration, (7) Scaffolding, and (8) Coaching. 2) The efficiency of this learning environment was evaluated by expert review. It was found that the learning environment is appropriate on 3 aspects: content, instructional design and media.