Inducing creativity in engineering education: A crowdvoting approach

Abstract

© 2019 IEEE. This paper investigates creativity of students in the context of engineering education. The main goal is to get new insights on how to motivate engineering students to express more creativity in solving their assignments. The research included a crowdvoting contest on a sample of was 28 students in the area of information technologies at Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade. Results point out that a crowdvoting competition can be used to induce students' creativity in engineering education. Additionally, we discuss how students creativity styles relate to the design of creative-based educational tasks.