15 Best Creativity Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Creativity courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $99.00. 9 come from a named university or institution, including University of Michigan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and ESSCA School of Management. 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
- 15
- Price range
- $49.00 – $99.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "creativity" 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 $49.00 to $99.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Using AI to Expand Creativity
Offered by University of Michigan
“Using AI to Expand Creativity” encourages you to think deeply about AI and its relationship to the essential humanity of creative expression. With the rapid adoption, growth, and development of contemporary AI tools, we...
$49.00listed price -
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Creativity Toolkit I: Changing Perspectives
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Thinking and doing the same things faster and better is not enough for innovation; we need creativity. Fortunately, creativity is a skill you can learn. This course will examine when, why, and how you can be creative so...
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Creativity Methods in Innovation
Offered by ESSCA School of Management
Creativity is a skill that can be developed and is one of the most important skills in business positions. In this course, learners discover proven creativity methods used to generate and develop innovative ideas. By com...
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Storying the Self for Leadership and Creativity
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
If you're moving into a leadership position, interested in thinking deeply about identity, or exploring the role of creativity in your life, this specialization is for you! Stories are powerful catalysts for social chang...
$49.00listed price -
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Creativity Toolkit II: Creative Collaboration
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Creativity requires us to collaborate with others, and this course helps you be a better creative collaborator. We need to be able to pitch our creative ideas so that others are excited rather than baffled or dismissive...
$99.00listed price -
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Complete Creativity Course: Unleash Your Innovation Now!
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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Emotional Intelligence, Creativity, and Mental Strength - 2026
Offered by Alex Genadinik
Students will master many of the most important mental acuity and mental strength soft skills for a successful life and career. Students will improve their emotional intelligence, learn about healthy mindsets, boost thei...
$49.00listed price -
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Music Production: Crafting Award-Worthy Songs
Offered by Howard University
In the Music Production: Crafting Award-Worthy Songs specialization, develop the mindset and confidence of an award-winning producer by producing songs that meet the highest musical standards of the industry, across musi...
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Optimizing Diversity on Teams
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
By drawing on social science perspectives, this course enables you to learn what diversity is, and how to use it to maximize team performance, innovation and creativity. You also learn how to draw out the collective wisd...
$99.00listed price -
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The Growth Mindset
Offered by University of California, Davis
Are you interested in expanding your career, and want to be a more creative and innovative employee who embraces problems and challenges, and thrives in those circumstances? This course will help you determine if you hav...
$49.00listed price -
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Generative AI: Labor and the Future of Work
Offered by University of Michigan
This course gives a broad overview of the impact that generative artificial intelligence (AI) could have on jobs and how it can be used to support everyday tasks. As the use of generative AI increases, organizations are...
$49.00listed price -
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Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector
Offered by University of Virginia
Do you work for a nonprofit or in the social sector? Are you struggling to solve the problems and meet the needs of the people you serve? Come learn more about how design thinking, a human-centered approach to problem so...
$59.00listed price -
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Leveraging Design Methods to Identify Business Opportunities
Offered by Parsons School of Design, The New School
This exciting online course helps you understand design methods and how to use them to identify business opportunities. It starts by focusing on the importance of design in a changing world by examining VUCA (volatility,...
$49.00listed price -
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Neuroscience of Leadership: Leading with Your Brain
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This course examines leadership techniques through the lens of social cognitive neuroscience and psychology. Utilizing the latest research, we develop a leadership practice based on neuroscience. Consideration for leadin...
$49.00listed price -
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Experiencing Design: Deepening Your Design Thinking Practice
Offered by University of Virginia
How do we unlock the transformational power of design thinking? To do this, we must understand that this power lies not in what it encourages us to do, but in who it encourages us to become. We become design thinkers by...
$49.00listed price
Best Creativity Courses on Coursera compared
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 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $99.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $50.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. 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. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 9 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Michigan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and ESSCA School of Management — 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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