PROMOTING INTERACTIVITY AND CREATIVITY IN A SCIENCE COURSE

Vasso Stylianou, Department of Computer Science, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
Andreas Savva, Department of Computer Science, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
George Portides, Department of Computer Science, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Abstract

Young people entering the working force are nowadays required to compete not only on skills and education but also on creative thinking. This is because creativity and innovation are a must for businesses and nations which, today more than ever, are required to compete on the creative use of the scarce resources and the identification of new ones. Thus, promoting creative thinking among students, individually and collectively, is an educator’s challenge. This paper presents the efforts made to promote creative thinking in a Human Computer Interaction course and the students’ evaluation of these efforts.