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1. Encouraging Innovation and
Creativity in Students
Innovative and
Creative learning By
Harsha Varthan E.P
INTRODUCTION:
Innovation and creativity are two words heard frequently in higher
education today. How can we encourage innovation and creativity in
ourselves and our students? Reimers-Hild and King described
components of innovation as fun, creative, diverse, collaborative, and
intuitive. Taking small steps to accomplish this goal is the way to go, but
there needs to be support and encouragement. Taking risks and
sometimes even looking at "failure as fuel for innovation" can help
promote this process. If something does not work, we can learn from it,
and then modify and try again.

2. Active Learning:
Use active learning techniques to engage students, and encourage
innovation and creativity. "learning happens when you trap a
student in an environment where they can't escape without
thinking."
Why Active Learning?
> To provide interaction that includes a high percentage of
class time with hands-on and problem-solving opportunities.
> To create opportunities for hands-on field work to get
students out of their comfort zone and their own
environments.
> To make students to go deeper into the concept.
> To make students to think outside the box.
> Have students facilitate a roundtable discussion.

3. Collaborative Learning:
It is about talking with each other, sharing ideas and challenges.
These kinds of collaborative conversations encourage an atmosphere
of safety and the ability to take risks. The outcome of collaboration
leads to "sharing ideas across discipline," "creating an environment of
open collaboration," and "providing for interdisciplinary and capstone
courses as well as cross-class projects." So, collaboration place a major
role in providing a way to innovation and creativity in students.

4. Risk-Taking:
In order to create an innovative and creative environment, risk-taking
needs to be encouraged.
Why Risk Taking?
> It helps you to Get out of your own comfort zone.
> Makes students to try new ideas and then tweak to improve
> It helps you feel something different from others and makes
you to do more on your field.
> It builds your inner confidence.
> It helps you face critical situations.

5. Moving Forward:
Few key themes needed for moving forward are support from
administration; opportunities to collaborate with their colleague both
discipline-specific and inter-disciplinary; time to observe from other
faculty; working in collaboration with institutional technology; and
lots of communication. Following-up with these information and
ideas, it is also an important part of encouraging innovation and
creativity.

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