Would you like to train the next generation of Digital Maturity Enablers? Through this MOOC you will acquire the knowledge and the toolbox to guide your students in becoming experts who strategically envision future digital scenarios and solutions in a sustainable, ethical and strategic way.
This MOOC is your guide to the surprising, unpredictable and fascinating journey that leads to greater creativity. It is structured to train and empower creative thinking and design thinking for innovation on individual levels and in groups.
The objective is to equip multidisciplinary students with fundamental knowledge on creativity and a toolbox that will augment their creative and design abilities and mindset to face challenges in their own professional fields. The toolbox is constituted by a design thinking process and a series of tools and techniques that will boost their Creative Thinking to reach innovation.
The MOOC provides a tested and proven design process, developed by IDEActivity Center, with some methods and techniques which aim to promote and generate creativity, break established schemes, stimulate the imagination and, regardless of the method, improve the conditions in which creative ideas are produced. Students will learn different creativity tools and established skills in their utilisation over different problems and areas. They will learn how to enhance their creative abilities and to adopt a playful mindset in their everyday work that is fundamental to break the mental walls that inhibit creativity.
The course foresees a learning by doing approach where they will apply the toolbox step by step to face a challenge.
The course is structured in 5 weeks.
Week 1 – What is Digital Creativity for Digital Maturity?
Week 2 – The DC4DM educational model
Week 3 – The Design Futures process
Week 4 – Practical tools for the application of the model
Week 5 – The DC4DM model in action
In the first week, we concentrate on exploring the context in which the DC4DM project was created.
Week 1 introduces the concept of Digital Maturity and the 4 key practices that companies should implement to successfully undertake the gradual transition towards it. This first week also explains why it is relevant to train Digital Creativity to form the next generation of professionals able to support organizations in their digital transformation process. In particular, the week presents the role of Digital Maturity Enablers, new professional figures who possess a set of essential abilities to guide companies during the digital maturing path as well as explains the role of educators who are responsible for training these future talents.
Week 2 presents the educational model Digital Creativity for Digital Maturity (DC4DM) and the theory it is grounded on. Particular attention is given to the description of the Digital Creative Abilities (DCAs) that constitute the essential skillset for future Digital Matutity Enablers. The way in which such DCAs have been organized is also emphasized and explained to point out the importance of the Drivers, namely three thematic clusters of DCAs. In this week, you will also have the chance to hear a few stories from experts in the field of industry and find out their perspective on Digital Maturity.
Week 3 is dedicated to the core of the DC4DM model, namely the Design Futures process. It explores in detail how the Design Futures process is structured and describes its theoretical groundwork. Specific attention is given to the first step of the process which requires an in-depth trend research. For this reason, the week also presents a specific lecture on how to conduct a fruitful trend research.
Week 4 provides an operational overview of the DC4DM toolkit, the major intellectual output of the DC4DM project, and some essential guidelines and instructions to navigate it smoothly. The lecture is structured as a tutorial video to guide you through the main steps to follow the right flow and to give you tips to apply the tools and perform the activities correctly. Other project’s outputs are presented through additional materials available in the dedicated page.
Week 5 focuses on the Learning Lab and provides some practical insights to organize a successful experience. By describing the case study of the Learning Lab organized in Milan, you will receive some useful suggestions to plan and design the learning experience. You will also have the chance to hear students’ perspectives and comments on the Learning Labs conducted in Madeira and Saint-Étienne.
There are also some additional resources collected in the Additional Materials page. The additional materials allow you to reach an in-depth knowledge of the topics that interest you the most.
