In the coming week, Forum: 4:1 Course Design Team Decisions, requires teams to brainstorm. Brainstorming is a common kind of creative activity that can be used in e-learning. This activity helps in generating lots of new ideas. Questions like-“if, how, What if” help learners to think out of the box. The leader poses a problem for which participants suggest solutions. The goal is to generate new and unique ideas. In this kind of exercises no ideas are correct or incorrect. Thus, all the ideas are acceptable. Instructors make sure that learners understand the basic rule of the brainstorming-there is no bad ideas. Emphasis should be laid that participants do not criticize idea but can add better ideas.
Brainstorming is an important aspect of team work, problem solving and creative thinking. This is also useful anywhere learners need to solve problems in an original way. Brainstorming can take different forms. The instructor can use the brainstorming in form of chat and discussion form. Learners can continue to add ideas in the forum. At the end of the time allotted to complete the brainstorming activity, instructor can grade participants based on the ideas they contributed.
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