Course: Creativity Considered
Instructors: Adam Brandenburger, Faculty Director of the Program on Creativity & Innovation and Jeff Lehman, Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai
Students Enrolled: 12
Technology Used: NYU Zoom, NYU Classes, Slack, Skype
Adam Brandenburger and Jeff Lehman designed their course, Creativity Considered, to be a collective journey on which students go to enhance their creative selves. To this end, the course involved extensive in-class discussion and one or more in-class exercises per session. Each session is two and a half hours long, with two mini-breaks during the class. It also includes student presentations supplemented with slides and commentary.
To move the course to digital instruction, Brandenburger and Lehman began by determining that, with students in China and the U.S., they could only maintain the feel of the in-person experience by teaching synchronously. So they decided to teach the course late in the evening in New York City 10:00 PM, with Lehman joining from Shanghai at 10 AM.
