25 Best Creative Thinking Courses Online
We compared 25 Creative Thinking courses currently listed on Coursera, edX and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $1,665.00. 14 come from a named university or institution, including Arizona State University, Imperial College London and Institute for the Future. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 25
- Price range
- $19.99 – $1,665.00
- Providers
- Coursera, edX, Udemy
- Last updated
- 31 Aug 2026
How these 25 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, edX, Udemy, matched to "creative thinking" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $1,665.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Professional Skills: Creative Thinking
Offered by Arizona State University
Fuel your innovation with powerful tools to unlock new ideas. Learn to think creatively in real-world situations through a course designed for flexible, hands-on learning. Creative thinking is more than a skill — it's a...
$49.00listed price -
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Creative Thinking Tools for Success and Leadership
Offered by Imperial College London
This Creative Thinking specialisation consists of three courses, designed to enhance learners' creativity skills by employing diverse brainstorming techniques, systematic creativity tools, and advanced creative thinking...
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Creative Thinking: Techniques and Tools for Success
Offered by Imperial College London
Learnhow to applytools and techniques to better solve problems, generate ideas, and excel in your chosen career.
$59.00listed price -
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Futures Thinking
Offered by Institute for the Future
Do you want to think about the future with more creativity and optimism? Do you want to see what’s coming faster, so you can be better prepared for disruptions and more in control of your future? Do you want to get bette...
$49.00listed price -
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Professional Success Skills
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
To become job-ready, you need to develop technical knowledge and skills. Those skills can help you get through that first door. But then what? Completing this professional certificate will help you learn and develop skil...
$49.00listed price -
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Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future
Offered by Institute for the Future
Do you want to learn how to simulate the future more creatively and more effectively? This course is for you. Humans are the only living creatures with the ability to think about and make plans for the long- term future....
$49.00listed price -
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Prompt Engineering
Offered by Vanderbilt University
Learn to augment and amplify your human creativity and critical thinking with Generative AI. By the end of the course, you will be able to use Generative AI as an exoskeleton for your mind. In this hands-on specializatio...
$49.00listed price -
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Learning How To Learn for Youth
Offered by Arizona State University
Based on one of the most popular open online courses in the world, this course gives you easy access to the learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines...
$49.00listed price -
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Designing Breakthrough Advertisements and Commercials
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Most advertisements are immediately ignored. Not because the message is wrong, but because no one notices them. In this specialization, you will study the history and creative craft behind advertisements that break throu...
$49.00listed price -
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Model United Nations
Offered by University of Bayreuth
Are you a future policymaker, consultant, negotiator, or diplomat? If so, this course is for you! You will acquire skills in negotiation, public speaking, creative thinking, and leadership. Model United Nations (MUN) is...
$39.00listed price -
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Customer Insights: New Product Development Orientation
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course is the first in the Customer Insights and New Product Development (CIPD) specialization. It will introduce learners to the tools and process of gathering customer insights for identifying and developing new p...
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Higher education learning in the age of AI
Offered by Stellenbosch University
This course explores how teachers in higher education can reconsider their approach to students’ learning in the age of AI. This course provides a learning-centred approach to the inclusion of AI when designing students’...
$149.00listed price -
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Designing for Change: Environmental Education Research and Practice.
Offered by Stanford University
Have you ever wondered how research in psychology, learning sciences, environmental studies, and other fields might be relevant to your environmental education work? Are you curious about where to find and how to use the...
$48.98listed price -
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Developing an Experimenter's Mindset for Business
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
$49.00listed price -
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Technology & Entrepreneurship
Offered by Arizona State University
Everyone can be a technology innovator. This specialization helps learners translate their technical knowledge and problem-solving skills into high value products and services. Throughout this specialization learners wil...
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Offered by The University of Maryland, College Park
This course on Innovation and Entrepreneurship explores the processes and principles that underlie successful business practices. You’ll engage with ideas about creating and managing innovative ventures, allowing you to...
$680.40listed price -
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Decision Making: Complete Guide
Offered by Chris Croft Training
Taught by world renowned speaker Chris Croft, this four-course Specialization provides a complete toolkit for making better decisions in work and everyday life. You'll learn how to generate creative solutions, recognise...
$49.00listed price -
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Design Thinking for Business Leaders
Offered by Institute of Product Leadership (IPL)
Design Thinking is an approach that enables even the most traditional thinkers to think innovatively. This course covers the fundamental concepts of Design Thinking for Product Leaders
$49.00listed price -
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Thinking & Acting like an Entrepreneur
Offered by RWTH Aachen University
Discover the entrepreneur inside of you – learn what it takes to turn an idea into a real business and how to put this approach to use within your own company.
$249.00listed price -
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Creativity
Why take this course? By taking this course you won't need any other creativity course or book, but if I've done my job well, you'll WANT to take more. Much more. Why "sleep on it" or always hav...
$19.99listed price -
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Create Awesome Graphics with ChatGPT
Unlock your creative potential with Create Awesome Graphics with ChatGPT 4o — the ultimate, hands-on guide to mastering image generation using the powerful tools built into ChatGPT 4o.Whether you're a total beginner or a...
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AI Galaxy Learn Simple: A Generative AI Guide for Beginners
This Course Is Designed for Your Personal Transformation with The Help of AIWelcome to The AI Galaxy, a course for you ( the compassionate leader, creative thinker, and everyday doer who’s ready to explor...
$24.99listed price -
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Problem-Solving Skills
Offered by Logical Operations
Problem-Solving Skills focuses on eliminating corporate problems. Approaches to problem solving are defined, along with traits of good problem solvers and the company cultures that influence them. The course focuses on t...
$49.00listed price -
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Corporate Innovation
Offered by The University of Queensland
This course on corporate innovation focuses on developing the skills necessary to foster creativity and innovative practices within organizations. You'll explore strategies for creating a culture that embraces change and...
$1,665.00listed price -
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Capstone: Design Thinking for IS in Business
Offered by Howard University
In this course, learners will be introduced to the capstone project and learn how to integrate the design thinking process in business problem solving. In addition, learners will develop a prototype and get feedback from...
$49.00listed price
Best Creative Thinking Courses Online compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Professional Skills: Creative Thinking | Coursera | Arizona State University | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Creative Thinking Tools for Success and Leadership | Coursera | Imperial College London | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Creative Thinking: Techniques and Tools for Success | edX | Imperial College London | $59.00 | View → |
| 4 | Futures Thinking | Coursera | Institute for the Future | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Professional Success Skills | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future | Coursera | Institute for the Future | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Prompt Engineering | Coursera | Vanderbilt University | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Learning How To Learn for Youth | Coursera | Arizona State University | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Designing Breakthrough Advertisements and Commercials | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Model United Nations | edX | University of Bayreuth | $39.00 | View → |
| 11 | Customer Insights: New Product Development Orientation | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | Higher education learning in the age of AI | edX | Stellenbosch University | $149.00 | View → |
| 13 | Designing for Change: Environmental Education Research and Practice. | edX | Stanford University | $48.98 | View → |
| 14 | Developing an Experimenter's Mindset for Business | Coursera | Packt | $49.00 | View → |
| 15 | Technology & Entrepreneurship | Coursera | Arizona State University | $49.00 | View → |
| 16 | Innovation and Entrepreneurship | edX | The University of Maryland, College Park | $680.40 | View → |
| 17 | Decision Making: Complete Guide | Coursera | Chris Croft Training | $49.00 | View → |
| 18 | Design Thinking for Business Leaders | edX | Institute of Product Leadership (IPL) | $49.00 | View → |
| 19 | Thinking & Acting like an Entrepreneur | edX | RWTH Aachen University | $249.00 | View → |
| 20 | Creativity | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 21 | Create Awesome Graphics with ChatGPT | Udemy | — | $49.99 | View → |
| 22 | AI Galaxy Learn Simple: A Generative AI Guide for Beginners | Udemy | — | $24.99 | View → |
| 23 | Problem-Solving Skills | Coursera | Logical Operations | $49.00 | View → |
| 24 | Corporate Innovation | edX | The University of Queensland | $1,665.00 | View → |
| 25 | Capstone: Design Thinking for IS in Business | Coursera | Howard University | $49.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 25 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $1,665.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $1,645.01. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera, edX and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 14 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Arizona State University, Imperial College London and Institute for the Future — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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