UIUC - Subsistence Marketplaces
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Subsistence Marketplaces at Coursera Overview
Duration | 47 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Subsistence Marketplaces at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Subsistence Marketplaces at Coursera Course details
- The foundation for this course lies with unique synergies between pioneering research, teaching, and social initiatives through the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative. Unique to this approach is a bottom-up understanding of the intersection of poverty and the marketplace.
- The goals of this course are to help you develop an understanding of marketplace activity in the radically different context of subsistence where much of humanity resides and survives, and for you to design solutions that can be implemented by individuals, businesses, and social enterprises through economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable products for subsistence marketplaces.
Subsistence Marketplaces at Coursera Curriculum
Course Orientation
Welcome to Subsistence Marketplaces
Course Orientation
Syllabus
About the Discussion Forums
Updating Your Profile
Social Media
Orientation Quiz
Lesson 1-1.1 Introduction to Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 1-1.2 A Day in the Life of a Rural Homemaker
Lesson 1-1.3 A Day in the Life of a Family
Lesson 1-2.1 Thinking in Subsistence Marketplaces
Module 1 Live Session: January 18, 2014
Module 1 Summary: June 16, 2014
Module 1 Summary: January 2015
Module 1 Overview
Lesson 1-1 Readings
Lesson 1-2 Readings
Lesson 1-1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 1-2 Practice Quiz
Module 1 Quiz
Consumers and Entrepreneurs in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 2-1.1 Feeling and Coping in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 2-1.2 A Day in the Life of an Urban Homemaker
Lesson 2-2.1 Subsistence Consumers and Entrepreneurs
Lesson 2-2.2 A Day in the Life of an Urban Shopkeeper
Lesson 2-2.3 A Day in the Life of a Rural Shopkeeper
Module 2 Live Session: January 25, 2014
Module 2 Summary: June 23, 2014
Module 2 Overview
Lesson 2-1 Readings
Lesson 2-2 Readings
Lesson 2-1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 2-2 Practice Quiz
Module 2 Quiz
Exchanges and Needs in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 3-1.1 Exchanges and Relationships in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 3-1.2 Shakti Rising
Lesson 3-2.1 Needs/Products, Relationships, and Markets in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 3-2 Virtual Immersion Slideshow
Module 3 Live Session: February 1, 2014
Module 3 Summary: June 30, 2014
Module 3 Overview
Lesson 3-1 Readings
Lesson 3-2 Readings
Lesson 3-2 Virtual Immersion Exercise: Instructions
Lesson 3-1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 3-2 Practice Quiz
Module 3 Quiz
Gaining Marketplaces Insights
Lesson 4-1.1 Gaining Marketplace Insights in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 4-1.2 Rural Conversation and Observation
Lesson 4-1.3 Urban Conversation and Observation
Field Immersion Clip 1
Field Immersion Clip 2
Field Immersion Clip 3
Field Immersion Clip 4
Field Immersion Clip 5
A Visit to Tribal Communities in Tanzania
A Rural Community in Argentina
A Day in the Life of an Artisan in Mendoza, Argentina
Lesson 4-2.1 Local Environments in Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 4-2.2 Environmental Issues in Urban Subsistence Marketplaces
Lesson 4-2.3 Environmental Issues in Rural Subsistence Marketplaces
Module 4 Live Session: February 8, 2014
Module 4 Summary: July 7, 2014
Module 4 Overview
Lesson 4-1 Readings
Lesson 4-2 Readings
Lesson 4-1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 4-2 Practice Quiz
Module 4 Quiz
Identifying Needs and Generating Ideas
Lesson 5-1.1 Identifying and Understanding Need, Drivers, and Context Elements
Lesson 5-1.2 Shakti Rising
Lesson 5-2.1 Generating Ideas and Designing Solutions
Lesson 5-2 Idea Generation Exercise Slideshow -Water
Lesson 5-2 Idea Generation Exercise Slideshow -Plowing
Lesson 5-2 Idea Generation Exercise Slideshow -Technology Solutions
Module 5 Live Session: February 15, 2014
Module 5 Summary: July 14, 2014
Module 5 Overview
Lesson 5-1 Readings
Lesson 5-2 Readings
Additional Resource: Examples of Needs Served
Lesson 5-2 Idea Generation Immersion Exercise: Instructions
Lesson 5-1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 5-2 Practice Quiz
Module 5 Quiz
Evaluating Ideas and Designing Solutions
Lesson 6-1.1 Evaluating Solutions and Designing Ecosystems
Lesson 6-2.1 Designing, Communicating and Delivering the Value Proposition
Module 6 Live Session: February 22, 2014
Module 6 Summary: July 21, 2014
Module 6 Overview
Lesson 6-1 Readings
Lesson 6-2 Readings
Lesson 6-1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 6-2 Practice Quiz
Module 6 Quiz
Crafting an Enterprise Plan
Lesson 7-1.1 Designing Elements of Enterprise Plan -Case Study of Sun Oven
Lesson 7-2.1 Designing Elements of Enterprise Plan -Case Study of Marketplace Literacy Project
Emmanuel Ole Kokan Masaai, Pastoralist Society
Ramadhani Kupaza, OIKOS East Africa
Peter Luswata, Uganda Rural Community Support Foundation
Jeannine Koninckx
Philip Fairweather, Bethel New Life Small Business Development Center
Professor Tejinder Sharma, Kurukshetra University
Module 7 Live Session: March 1, 2014
Module 7 Overview
Lesson 7-1 Readings
Lesson 7-2 Readings
Lesson 7-1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 7-2 Practice Quiz
Module 7 Quiz
Course Summary and Conclusion
Lesson 8-1.1 Summary
Lesson 8-2.1 Concluding Insights and Perspectives
Module 8 Live Session: March 8, 2014
Module 8 Overview
Lesson 8-1 and 8-2 Readings
Lesson 8-1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 8-2 Practice Quiz
Module 8 Quiz
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