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Teaching today takes place in a demanding and ever-changing environment, requiring educators to constantly adapt to new trends and the evolving needs of students. Educational innovation isn’t optional—it’s necessary to create more effective, engaging, and flexible learning paths. This course offers content designed to help teachers identify new trends and develop creative and innovative skills in practical ways to improve their teaching practice.

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To develop an innovative approach to teaching, it is essential to understand the strategy and goals of innovation from the beginning:

▪ Understand the concepts of creativity and innovation as applied to teaching.

▪ Learn the main tools and strategies for creativity and innovation.

▪ Provide a competency framework based on creativity and innovation, presented in the form of learning and innovation profiles/roles.

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Creativity and innovation are seen as essential elements of our time.Understanding students and developing creativity are crucial. Creativity is a necessary skill for the future, especially considering the emergence of new professions due to rapid societal changes.

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Creativity is often confused with other traits. It is not:

1. Something that can be diagnosed or precisely measured—current tests lack scientific consensus.

2. Being funny or telling jokes.

3. Being clever or quick-witted.

4. Having an interest in arts or crafts—manual or artistic skills do not necessarily mean creativity.

5. Being restless or hyperactive—activity or energy doesn't equal creative ability.

Creativity must be useful and valuable, not just different or eccentric.

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La creatividad es un comportamiento humano complejo influenciado por diversas experiencias y que se expresa de manera diferente en distintos campos. Implica cuatro dimensiones:

El autor

El producto

El proceso

La dimensión social y cultural

La creatividad combina actitud, aptitudes y trabajo disciplinado utilizando métodos y técnicas. No solo es juzgada por el creador, sino también por expertos en la materia. En la educación, el profesor suele desempeñar esta función evaluadora.

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According to William Coyne:

Creativity is generating new and appropriate ideas.

Innovation is the successful application of those ideas in real-world settings.

Creativity is about ideation, while innovation is about implementation. Creativity is often subjective and hard to measure; innovation is objective, measurable, and aims to bring sustainable change and value.

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Per the Oslo Manual (OECD, 1997):

Research: Generating new knowledge for potential use.

Development: Using existing knowledge to design or improve products or processes.

Innovation: Goes beyond R&D by applying knowledge in a real context with the goal of achieving a beneficial, sustainable impact.

Innovation focuses on action and real-world application, not just theoretical or preparatory work.

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WHAT IS INNOVATION? Unlike improvement, which builds on known paths, innovation involves risk and the creation of something truly new that adds value.

A concise definition:

Innovation is original ideas that generate social or economic value in a sustainable way.

WHAT IT ISN´T INNOVATION?

Simply improving something that already exists. Improvement is conservative and follows an established path with predictable outcomes, while innovation seeks to introduce true change

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Educational innovation involves transforming elements of the educational system that hinder students’ desire to learn. It is a purpose-driven process aimed at developing students’ capacity to shape their future.

According to Axel Rivas, innovation in education:

Recognizes the limits of traditional education and alters it to benefit 21st-century learning rights.

Other authors add:

Jaume Carbonell: Educational innovation introduces changes to modify current practices and improve teaching and learning processes.

Jesús Salinas: Innovation involves planned, theory-based actions that transform educational practices.

Francesc Imbernón: It is a collective inquiry process that generates new ideas to solve problems in educational contexts, leading to institutional change.

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The Royal Spanish Academy defines innovation as:

1. The action and effect of introducing changes or novelties.

2. Creating or modifying a product and launching it into a market.