Fostering Undergraduate Students’ Creativity via the Training of Advanced Technologies

Abstract

The teaching in higher education should pay more attention to nurture the undergraduate students' creativity. Advanced technologies could act as a fine platform to foster creative learning and innovative teaching. An experiment of a short time period training using three types of up-to-date technologies (3-D printing, electrospinning and electrospraying) on the students was carried out. The effects of this training on the students creative leaning and thinking are analyzed. It is recommended that increased practical courses about advanced technologies should be arranged for the undergraduate students to undertake all-around training for nurturing innovative brains.