Objective:
The course is designed to learn a set of simple techniques that can be used in real-world situations to find and feel confident in your solutions.
Learning Outcomes:
- observe situations to characterize a problem
- frame a problem in different ways to identify the most efficient technique, model or approach to solve it
- develop and test hypotheses about how to solve a problem, iterating as needed
- use creative thinking skills to generate new approaches to solving problems
- work with others to solve complex problems
- recognize when they have found the most appropriate solution
General Course Topics:
- Exploring problems
- Observing
- Framing the problem
- Understanding the situation
- Trying
- Approaching problems creatively
- Diverging
- Converging
- Solving problems
- Reframing
- Six thinking hats
- Implementation