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Cultivating Students’ Creative Thinking Using Visual Narrative in an Agile Blended Learning Environment

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Blended Learning : Lessons Learned and Ways Forward (ICBL 2023)

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The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of a course design to foster students’ creative thinking using visual narrative. This research examined a course called “Thinking about the Past, Present and Future of a Locality” at K University in Japan as a case study. Through the analysis of data from students’ reflection reports and artifacts, the authors identified that students improved their imagination, narrative creation skill and expressive skill through Visual Narrative (VN) during the course, “Thinking about the Past, Present and Future of the Locality”. Furthermore, students encountered five areas of difficulty in creating the VN diagrams. These were (1) selecting and choosing information when determining a theme or content to express to the audience in the VN diagrams, (2) pictorially expressing what they wanted to convey, (3) imaging a future world that does not exist, (4) structuring the VN diagrams with a narrative, and (5) communicating to the audience in an easy-to-understand manner. Diffusive thinking activities for inquiring new ideas, combination of ideas of other students, accumulation of experience in production and presentation, and collaboration in groups helped students overcome these difficulties.

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    Xiaohong Zhang & Kenichi Kubota

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  1. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Chen Li

  2. Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Simon K. S. Cheung

  3. Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Fu Lee Wang

  4. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Angel Lu

  5. HKCT Institute of Higher Education, Sha Tin District, Hong Kong

    Lam For Kwok

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Zhang, X., Kubota, K. (2023). Cultivating Students’ Creative Thinking Using Visual Narrative in an Agile Blended Learning Environment. In: Li, C., Cheung, S.K.S., Wang, F.L., Lu, A., Kwok, L.F. (eds) Blended Learning : Lessons Learned and Ways Forward . ICBL 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13978. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35731-2_15

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