The Impact of Online Creative Classroom Environment on Students’ Creativity: A Case Study Based on Online Scratch Visual Programming

Many scholars believe that creativity is an essential skill for students in the 21st century. In recent years, an increasing number of researchers have begun to explore the factors that influence students’ creativity and hope to enhance students’ creativity levels. Previous studies have explored the impact of offline classroom environments on students’ creativity, finding that classrooms with a more creative atmosphere can effectively stimulate students’ creative motivation, cultivate their creativity and creative personality. This study focuses on exploring the relationship between creative classroom atmosphere in online programming courses and students’ creativity, and aims to provide suggestions for cultivating students’ creativity in online courses. This study used video analysis to analyze the recorded videos of online courses and conducted interviews with six teachers who have experience in online Scratch teaching. The main conclusions drawn from the study are as follows: 1) a more creative classroom atmosphere can effectively promote student creativity, and 2) the impact of a creative classroom environment on student creative behavior is not always immediate, and may have a delayed effect.