Playing with Thinkertoys to build creative abilities through online instruction

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-48

  Robbins, Tina L ^a   Kegley, Kathleen ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Synchlora LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity training; Divergent thinking skills; Higher education; Thinkertoys; TTCT

Indexed keywords

EID: 75449113249     PISSN: 18711871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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