Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action
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Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action at Coursera Overview
Duration | 10 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 5 of 5 in the Futures Thinking Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level This course is for everyone.
- Approx. 10 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action at Coursera Course details
- When you get better at thinking about the future, you get better at changing the future.
- This course will help you take all of the foresight skills you?ve developed so far and apply them to making real positive change in your life, in your work, and in the world around you.
- You?ll learn how to create and share ?preferred futures?, which are highly persuasive, compelling visions of the changes you want to make real. You?ll use your preferred future to identify obstacles, recruit allies, collect resources, and plan action to make your vision real.
- You?ll also practice making ?artifacts? from the future, which are creative representations of how everyday life might be different in the future. Artifacts can inspire others to join you in your quest to make a preferred future real. Leading futurists from the Institute for the Future will share with you their favorite future artifacts ? and walk you through the entire creative process it took to make them.
- Every action we take today changes the future. This course will help you identify and take the actions that make the BIGGEST, most strategic impacts on the most urgent challenges you and society face.
- Many thanks to the Enlight Foundation and the Enlight Collaborative, which provided a grant to support the creation of this course.
Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action at Coursera Curriculum
Preferred Futures
Welcome to this Course! Meet your professor, Jane McGonigal
What's a preferred future?
Tips on Preferred Futures
Working Backwards from a Preferred Future
Good news from the future!
Take a two-minute survey about the future!
Urgent Optimism Skills Brief (Your "cheat sheet" for the course)
Hello from the year 2050: An example of a preferred future
News of the Future
TOOL: Headline the Future
Images of the Future
What's an image of the future?
Today's Images of the Future
Measuring and Influencing Optimism About the Future
3 Images of the Future, Year 2027
Images of the Future (excerpt)
OPTIONAL: 7 Images of the Future from 1947
A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction
OPTIONAL: Six Short Stories From the Future
Images of the Future
Artifacts from the Future
What are artifacts from the future?
More Examples of Artifacts from the Future
Tips for Thinking of Artifacts
DEMO: How I Made These Artifacts!
How to Make Artifacts from the Future
Artifacts from the Future
Action Roadmaps
Introduction to Action Roadmaps
How to Build an Action Roadmap (Part 1)
How to Build an Action Roadmap (Part 2)
Mini-Masterclass: Group and Community Futures (Part 1)
Mini-Masterclass: Group and Community Futures (Part 2)
SCENARIO: Sudan 2030
TOOL: Build an Action Roadmap
Climate Action Map
OPTIONAL: Kenya Youth Scenarios in 2030
OPTIONAL: UNDP Foresight Manual: Empowered Futures for the 2030 Agenda
Climate Action and YOU
What community would you bring together to future?
You're Ready to Make the Future!
Take the Pledge to Make the Future
Congratulations on finishing the course!
Pledge to Make the Future
An invitation to join our free alumni network
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Student Forum
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