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Supporting Diverse Innovation 

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Supporting Diverse Innovation
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Overview

Duration

3 weeks

Total fee

2,205

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Supporting Diverse Innovation
 at 
FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Duration 3 weeks
  • Weekly study 4 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Supporting Diverse Innovation
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Course details

More about this course
  • On this course, you'll look at what diverse innovation is and explore the social and economic benefits it brings. This will help you to identify best practices to cultivate diverse innovation.
  • It's crucial that the development of innovations serve all of society and reduce inequalities, rather than widening them. In order to achieve this, diversity and inclusion must be embedded.
  • You'll delve into the role of different identities and cultures in creating diverse innovation. This will help you to understand how to build work cultures that are diverse in order to ensure an inclusive group of innovators voices.
  • By dissecting what diverse innovation is and why it's so important, you'll start thinking about what you can do and how you can be held accountable. You'll then be able to apply everything you've learned to your own situation, and begin to make a plan for how you can make changes and amplify diverse voices.
  • This course has been designed by The Creative Computing Institute to help you support diverse innovation. The lead educator is Mark Martin, MBE, co-founder of UK Black Tech, an innovation group that's on a mission to make the UK the most ethnically diverse tech ecosystem in the world.
  • With guidance from Mark and other expert contributors, you'll develop the tools and techniques you need to help you cultivate diversity in the workplace and advocate for diverse innovation.
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Supporting Diverse Innovation
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Week 1

Getting started: diversity, inclusion and innovation

What is diverse innovation?

The benefits of diverse innovation

Risks of not supporting diverse innovation

Week 2

Understanding different identities

Diverse work cultures

Good practices in diverse innovation

The importance of trust

Week 3

The importance of transparency

Accountability

Amplifying voices

Putting diverse innovation into practice

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