The effects of the online ideation tool on the creative potential and ideation process

Abstract

Ever since the recent creative economy era has come into being, the country has been actively discussing ways to foster creative human resources. In the past, creativity was thought to be lofty, intelligent, and something out of the ordinary. However, recent research finds that creativity comes in much simpler forms and that education can be used to promote the development of creativity. Society can no longer rely solely on problem solving abilities, and must now look to evolve towards creative problem solving abilities. For these reasons, the development of creative human resources will be an essential topic in the current era of the creative economy. Unfortunately, only temporary training programs are implemented in learning creative thinking techniques, and it is also far from a real-life context. This is because there is a misunderstanding of the concept of 'Creativity' and creativity education is considered with only introducing creative thinking techniques. There are new definitions for creativity; creative ideas for daily life, social life, process, and so on. Accordingly, proper creative education systems and support are required to foster creative human resources. This research suggests that the new online ideation tool contributes to developing creative competency. While learners were using this tool, they created more ideas than before about the given subject and it stimulated the learner's creative potential and ideation process.