Life After COVID-19: Get Ready for our Post-Pandemic Future
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Life After COVID-19: Get Ready for our Post-Pandemic Future at Coursera Overview
Duration | 10 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Life After COVID-19: Get Ready for our Post-Pandemic Future at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level No previous experience required.
- Approx. 10 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Life After COVID-19: Get Ready for our Post-Pandemic Future at Coursera Course details
- The pandemic will create long-lasting and surprising ripple effects, even after vaccines are widely available. Are you ready for what's next?
- This course will give you a clear forecast of the challenges and opportunities you?re most likely to encounter over the next 3-5 years, as a direct result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
- - Find out what risks still lie ahead
- - Make a plan for resilience
- - Play future forecasting games to stretch your imagination about what's possible
- - Build your post-pandemic confidence
- - Envision the world you want to live in when we?re all finally on the other side of COVID-19. How can you take advantage of this unprecedented moment of disruption to make positive change in your community, company or other organization?
- By completing this course, you?ll be better understand the ?future shock? we?ve all just lived through together. You'll be able to identify the 7 pre-existing conditions of society that made the pandemic more severe and harder to recover from -- from economic inequality and racial injustice to fragile public trust and the climate emergency. Looking ahead, you'll explore the most surprising and exciting solutions that are being proposed to help our communities heal from these pre-existing conditions.
- COVID-19 is a roller-coaster ride we will all be on for years to come. With the skills you build in this class, such as learning to spot the four patterns of change that occur during any period of crisis or major disruption, you will be better able to see the ups and downs coming before you get there. And you'll feel more in control of what happens next, as you learn to use the Institute for the Future's post-pandemic Toolkit for Transformation.
- By the end of this course, you'll be more knowledgeable and better qualified to help yourself, or your company or other organization, navigate the rest of the pandemic and find success on our long road to recovery and reinvention.
- This courses is taught by Institute for the Future Research Director Jane McGonigal, PhD.
Life After COVID-19: Get Ready for our Post-Pandemic Future at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome to our Post-Pandemic Future
Welcome to the course!
Get into a post-pandemic mindset
Why you can trust the Institute for the Future's forecasts
The 4 patterns of change to watch
Pattern #1: Post-pandemic growth
Pattern #2: Post-pandemic constraint
Pattern #3: Post-pandemic collapse
Pattern #4: Post-pandemic transformation
How to make your first post-pandemic forecast
Week 1 review, and what?s next
OPTIONAL: When will it end? How a changing virus is reshaping scientists? views on COVID-19
OPTIONAL: After the Pandemic: What Happens Next?
OPTIONAL: Excerpt from "Reality is Broken"
OPTIONAL: During a pandemic, we urgently need to stretch our imagination
OPTIONAL: What is Futures Thinking?
Patterns of Change to Watch
Make a Plan for Resilience
Welcome back, and get ready to ?ride the roller coaster?
Give yourself a future boost
The Deeper Disease (part 1)
The Deeper Disease (part 2)
The Risks Ahead
The First 5 Minutes of the Future (part 1 - HOW TO PLAY )
The First 5 Minutes of the Future (part 2 - SCENARIOS)
Make your first plan for resilience
Week 2 review, and what?s next
OPTIONAL: The Deeper Disease
OPTIONAL: World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2021
OPTIONAL: The First 5 Minutes of the Future
OPTIONAL: Future Boosting Techniques
The Deeper Disease
Learn the Habits of Professional Futurists
Welcome back, and get ready to ?think like a futurist?
100 Ways Anything Could Be Different in the Future - part 1
100 Ways Anything Could Be Different in the Future - part 2
Habit #1: Track driving forces
Habit #2: Collect signals of change
Habit #3: Challenge your assumptions
Week 3 review, and what?s next
OPTIONAL: Counterfactual Thinking is the Key to Creativity, and a Vaccine for 'Future Shock
OPTIONAL: 100 Ways Anything Could Be Different in the Future
Which driving forces will you track?
How to think like a futurist
Final Project: Choose your Action for Post-Pandemic Transformation
Welcome back, and get oriented to IFTF?s Toolkit for Transformation
Tool #1 Patterns from the past
Tool #2 Innovations for the future
Tool #3 Actions for transformation
Your final project instructions
Congratulations! Let?s keep futuring together
OPTIONAL Toolkit for Transformation
OPTIONAL: Actionable Advice for the World After the Virus
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