Tenets for Responding to Rapid Global Change via Creativity and Innovation Education at Sheridan College
摘要
Sheridan College in Toronto, Canada delivers a dynamic assortment of courses and credentials on creativity and innovation intended as complements to core disciplinary studies. Offering undergraduate and graduate programs specifically on creativity, creative problem-solving, and innovation, Sheridan’s differentiated programming supports students’ twenty-first-century ‘human skills’ through authentic, applied, student-centered experiences connecting creativity theory and practice to core disciplines. Students across diverse diploma, undergraduate degree, and postgraduate programs in business, technology, science, applied health, education, and specialties within Canada’s largest art school are enthusiastic about growing and applying their creativity. They benefit from a team of internationally recognized faculty and administrators who implement three core tenets towards supporting them in becoming confident, efficacious, self-regulated creatives with a passion for innovation and for their personal and professional creativity. Sheridan’s students convocate with undergraduate and graduate certificates—unique formal credentials in creativity—that complement their degrees and prepare them to respond to rapid global change in an age marked by disruptive and radical innovation.