Forecasting Skills: See the Future Before it Happens
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Forecasting Skills: See the Future Before it Happens at Coursera Overview
Duration | 13 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Forecasting Skills: See the Future Before it Happens at Coursera Highlights
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Forecasting Skills: See the Future Before it Happens at Coursera Course details
- For many people, the future comes as a surprise ? or even a shock. But with strong forecasting skills, YOU can avoid future shock. You can adapt faster, and become better prepared to benefit from change.
- In this course, you?ll build your future forecasting skills. You'll learn how to turn groups of "signals" (clues about the future) and "drivers" (global forces that influence the direction of change) into compelling future forecasts. Forecasts help you discover new possibilities and opportunities for yourself, your company, or any community you want to inspire to make a better future.
- You'll also learn how to write future scenarios. Scenarios take forecasts one step further. They spark imagination and tell a story about what might happen if a forecast comes true. Scenarios help you evaluate: Is this a future I'm ready for? Is this a future I want?
- Leading futurists from the Institute for the Future will show you exactly how it's done. They'll share with you the forecasts and scenarios they?re most excited about right now, and walk you through the key steps they took to create them. Then, it's your turn! You'll create a forecast and a scenario on any future topic you choose.
- How will you benefit from taking this course? With strong forecasting skills, you'll get better at seeing the future before it happens. You'll be ready to consider possibilities that others never see coming or refuse to accept. You'll be able to help others prepare for and adapt to the future. You can decide which futures you want to make more likely, and which futures you want to prevent.
- Many thanks to the Enlight Foundation and the Enlight Collaborative, which provided a grant to support the creation of this course.
Forecasting Skills: See the Future Before it Happens at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction to Future Forecasting
Welcome the the course! Meet your professor Jane McGonigal
Strong Opinions, Lightly Held
What's a forecast?
Mini-Masterclass: Forecasting 101
Looking for Drivers
More Global Drivers
Driver Example: Blockchain!
How to Make a Quick Forecast on any Topic
Take our two-minute survey about the future!
Forecasting Skills Brief: Your "Cheat Sheet" for this course
Excerpt: Get There Early
Skills Refresher: Signals of Change
Examples of Drivers: The World in 2030
Blockchain Futures
The Coming Era of Autonomous Vehicles
Future Forecasting Essentials
Blockchain basics
How to Create a Future Forecast
Combining Signals and Drivers into a Forecast (Part 1)
Combining Signals and Drivers into a Forecast (Part 2)
How to Reveal Unexpected Possibilities (Part 1)
How to Reveal Unexpected Possibilities (Part 2)
Wired World: Forecasts for 2020 and beyond
TOOL: Reveal Unexpected Possibilities
Which forecast would impact you the most?
How would the Wired World forecast would change YOUR life?
How to Write a Future Scenario
What's a scenario?
DEMO: Building a Scenario From Scratch
SCENARIO: The Future of Learning and Earning
The importance of ridiculous ideas
A Few More Scenarios to Play With
Signals of change behind the scenarios
Learning is Earning: Map of the Future
Scenarios from the Future of Technology (the Ethical Operating System)
The Future of Machines (3 Scenarios)
The Future of Machines
How to Update Your Forecasts
Revisiting a 10-Year Forecast... 10 Years Later!
Updating a Forecast
Congratulations on finishing this course!
Future of Money - A Forecast for 2021
Future of the Internet: A Forecast for 2021
Future of Households: A Forecast for 20201
Future of Social Media: A Forecast for 2021
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