CHALLENGES OF AN E-LEARNING PLATFORM FOR TEACHING CREATIVITY

In this paper, we argue that a systematic education for creativity appears to be the only solution to provide our students with the minimal tools to cope with the uncertainties of the future. And we suggest that an open access e-learning platform dedicated to teaching creativity might be the most efficient way to solve this problem on a large scale. However, this is not an easy task. In this paper, we describe some of the challenges we face in the implementation of the Leonardo da Vinci project "TECRINO - Teaching creativity in engineering", whose main objective is to develop the appropriate educational content and to setup a Moodle platform for teaching creativity. Among these challenges, we count the fuzzyness of the definition of some essential concepts like "creative thinking skills", and the lack of simple and easy to use creativity assessment tools. We believe that the modest attainment reported here is the essential first step on the long road of a systematic education for creativity.