Creativity reigns supreme in the online environment – the components of the personal learning environments are unique and individual to each person. That is part of why a personal learning environment is “personal”. It should reflect your own interests and learning styles, as well as your tools and techniques. Synthesis is how you incorporate what you are learning into your own research interests and knowledgebase. When you synthesize (for example literature reviews) into your own world, you are viewing that research within your own lens, that contains your own perspectives, life experiences, and thought processes. That is similar to creativity in that creativity is in the eye of the beholder. Your own unique perspectives, perceptions, thoughts, ideas, and expressions are part of your creativity. Creativity exhibits itself in what you write, post, and respond to. I have friends and relatives on facebook, and I often get surprised at the creativity that some of them exhibit in their short postings.
Creativity is important to learning because it enables you to have fun and enjoy the learning process. By integrating your own creativity – you get more out of the assignments. Synthesis is especially important to doctoral studies because the goal is to create new knowledge. By synthesizing existing research, you can potentially come up with new ways of thinking or doing, and potentially create new knowledge and add to the existing knowledgebase of your field.
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Allison
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