The Teaching of Collaborative Creativity, a Methodological Approach to Designing the Environment

The emerging problems are characterized by their high level of complexity. Faced with this scenario, the teacher must propose methodologies that promote collaborative creativity in search of solutions to emerging problems. Designing environments that promote it represents an alternative for this purpose. We conducted this research in a university course that taught collaborative creativity to solve emerging professional problems. It used a methodological approach based on the analysis and adjustments to the educational environment. For this, an Educational Design Research was carried out to improve the environment by identifying and solving its contradictions. We obtained creativity indicators to evaluate the effects of the transformations made to the environment. The overall results showed an increase in the creative value of the products, which we interpreted from the Flow Theory.