Effects of cloud-based learning on student's engineering design creativity with different creative self-efficacy.

• Cloud-based learning exerted a moderate influence on the steps of problem identification, preparation, and response validation and communication in the creative process. • Creative self-efficacy positively influenced the steps of response generation, validation, and communication. • Cloud-based learning had positive effects on sophistication in the assessment of participants with low creative self-efficacy. This paper discusses the effects of cloud-based learning and creative self-efficacy on creativity in engineering design. A nonequivalent pretest–posttest quasi-experimental design was used to recruit 97 students from a university in Taipei City in northern Taiwan. This study revealed two main conclusions. First, cloud-based learning exerted a moderate influence on the steps of problem identification, preparation, and response validation and communication in the creative process; creative self-efficacy positively influenced the steps of response generation, validation, and communication. Second, cloud-based learning had positive effects on novelty and functionality in the assessment of product creativity and significant positive effects on sophistication in the assessment of participants with low creative self-efficacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]