Shaping Identity of Being Creative Information Technology (IT) Engineers: Why, What and How Should Educators Do?

Hui Zhang; Chunfang Zhou

doi:10.1109/FSKD.2015.7382378

Shaping Identity of Being Creative Information Technology (IT) Engineers: Why, What and How Should Educators Do?

Hui Zhang , Chunfang Zhou

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This paper emphasizes the increasing awareness and ability of developing creativity in Information Technology (IT) education, which is motivated by the need to be creative engineers as part of the social identity of young IT engineers. This suggests this paper to discuss three questions: 1) what is creativity and engineering creativity? 2) why is IT understood as a creative domain? And 3) how to increase the awareness and ability of developing creativity in IT education? The above three questions will lead to a literature review in order to seeking for the answers. In addition, this paper points out Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is one of the potential strategy of teaching creativity to young IT engineers. So this paper has both theoretical and practical significances of improvement for creativity in IT industry and education in the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The proceedings of 2015 12th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'15)
Publisher	IEEE Press
Publication date	2015
Pages	2665-2669
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-7681-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/FSKD.2015.7382378
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2015 12th International Conference on - Zhangjiajie, China Duration: 15 Aug 2015 → 17 Aug 2015

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Conference	Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2015 12th International Conference on
Country/Territory	China
City	Zhangjiajie
Period	15/08/2015 → 17/08/2015

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Fostering Creativity in Higher Education: A Comparative Study on Pedagogical Strategies of Learning by Projects between Denmark and China
Zhou, C.
01/11/2013 → 31/10/2016
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Zhang , H & Zhou, C 2015, Shaping Identity of Being Creative Information Technology (IT) Engineers: Why, What and How Should Educators Do? in The proceedings of 2015 12th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'15). IEEE Press, pp. 2665-2669, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2015 12th International Conference on, Zhangjiajie, China, 15/08/2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/FSKD.2015.7382378

Shaping Identity of Being Creative Information Technology (IT) Engineers: Why, What and How Should Educators Do? / Zhang , Hui; Zhou, Chunfang.
The proceedings of 2015 12th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'15). IEEE Press, 2015. p. 2665-2669.

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