Edward Burger has long argued that the path to learning is not necessarily a straight line. As a mathematics professor at Williams College, he encouraged students to learn by failing to achieve a task ...

Editor’s Note: Janet English, Academic Coach for El Toro High School in California, spent six months in Finland on a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching. While there, she discovered a tool to ...

What is design thinking, and how can it improve creative problem solving? Crack open d.school Executive Director Sarah Stein Greenberg’s new book for answers. Released on Tuesday, “Creative Acts for ...

Creative problem-solving can be an exhilarating experience. You get a triple benefit: the euphoric 'aha' moment of solving a puzzle, the pride of accomplishing a goal, and the deeper self-discovery of ...

The brain does not have one creative center. The frontal cortex, hippocampus, basal ganglia, and white matter are all involved in functions that contribute to creative thinking. Despite our best ...

Today’s business environment is incredibly fast-moving and complicated, with problems arising left and right, like waves in a storm battering a ship. This can lead to organizations and team members ...

The Institute of Management Accountants released a pair of reports on how accountants can use design thinking and creative problem-solving to find innovative ways to address issues in their ...

Individuals with strong attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, related to inefficient cognitive executive ...

Becker’s Hospital Review asked healthcare leaders to share how they creatively solved a problem in a previous or current position. Many hospital problems that we have to solve as administrators are ...