Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future
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Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future at Coursera Overview
Duration | 15 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 4 of 5 in the Futures Thinking Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level This course is for everyone.
- Approx. 15 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future at Coursera Course details
- In this course participants learn how to use collaborative gaming techniques to go beyond your own thinking and see many, many different sides of the same future
- Learn how to adapt these methods to get diverse, surprising views of what?s possible, build your empathy for other people?s futures, and reduce your risk of being ?blindsided? by the future
- This course features content from the Ethical Operating System, a tool created by the Institute in collaboration with Omidyar Networks? Tech and Society Lab
- It?s designed to help technology companies anticipate risks and prevent unwanted consequences of the things they build
Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction to Collaborative Foresight
Welcome to this course - Meet your professor, Jane McGonigal
Why the Future is Like a Game
Expert Gaming Versus Everyone Gaming
Example of a Massively Multiplayer Forecasting Game
Take a two-minute survey about the future!
Collaborative Foresight Skills Brief: Your "cheat sheet" for this course
Asteroid Scenario: Day 1 Press Release
Asteroid Scenario: Day 5 Press Release
Asteroid Scenario: Day 5 Briefing/Results
Forecasting Games (Excerpt from Reality is Broken)
How to Game Out Surprising Consequences
What's a Future Wheel?
Examples of Surprising Consequences
5 Scenarios to Game Out
TOOL: Future Wheel
Ethical Operating System
Future Wheel Basics
Positive and Shadow Imagination
Two Sides of Every Future
The Future of Empathy
SCENARIO: The FeelThat Network
Advanced Positive and Shadow Imagination
Why Thousands of People are Willing to Die on Mars
The Case Against Going to Mars
Would it Be Ethical to Colonize Mars?
Future of Reading and Writing the Brain
Future of Mind and Body Technology
OPTIONAL: Results from the Feel That Future Forecasting Game
the Future of Empathy Technologies
Tools for Seeing the Future from a Different Point of View
Mini-Masterclass: How to Find Leading Edge Behaviors
How to Explore Four Future Feelings (Part 1)
How to Explore Four Future Feelings (Part 2)
5 Questions to Start a Conversation About the Future
Leading Edge Behaviors in Social Virtual Reality
BONUS: Voices from the Leading Edge of Work
TOOL: Explore Four Future Feelings
Epic Wins
What's an Epic Win?
Epic Wins from the Future of Technology
Tips on Creating Epic Wins
How to Play the Equitable Futures Card Game (Part 1)
How to Play the Equitable Future Card Game (Part 2)
Congratulations on finishing the course!
Epic Wins from the Future of Tech
TOOL: Equitable Futures Card Game
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