Ready, Set, Future! Introduction to Futures Thinking
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Ready, Set, Future! Introduction to Futures Thinking at Coursera Overview
Duration | 11 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Ready, Set, Future! Introduction to Futures Thinking at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 1 of 5 in the Futures Thinking Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level This course is for everyone! No previous experience required.
- Approx. 11 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Ready, Set, Future! Introduction to Futures Thinking at Coursera Course details
- Do you want to think about the future with more creativity and optimism? Do you want to see what?s coming faster, so you can be better prepared for disruptions and more in control of your future? Do you want to get better at changing what?s possible today ? in your company, your industry, your community, and in your own life?
- This course will introduce you to the practice of futures thinking, as developed and applied for the past 50 years by the Institute for the Future, a Silicon-Valley-based research and learning group founded in 1968. In this course, you?ll build your understanding of what futures thinking is and what you can do with it. You?ll master essential foresight techniques. You?ll meet some professional futurists. And you?ll choose one or more future topics you want to investigate with your new foresight skills.
- This course is for anyone who wants to spot opportunities for innovation and invention faster. You can gain the skills and confidence to help YOU become someone who makes the future, instead of letting the future happen to you.
- Many thanks to the Enlight Foundation and the Enlight Collaborative, which provided a grant to support the creation of this course.
Ready, Set, Future! Introduction to Futures Thinking at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome to the Future
Are you ready to learn how to think like a futurist?
Welcome to the course! Meet your professor Jane McGonigal
Give me some examples of futures thinking!
Meet some professional futurists
What is futures thinking?
Mini-Masterclass: The Future Belongs to Everyone
When does the future start?
What are the benefits of futures thinking?
Choose your own future!
Take our 2-minute survey about the future
What is Futures Thinking?
Who Hires Futurists?
How to think like a futurist: The 5 key principles
Why Companies Work With Futurists
Who Owns Your Future?
Six Possible Futures of Food
What is futures thinking?
When does the future start?
What are the seven benefits of futures thinking?
Signals of Change
Introduction to Signals
Examples of Signals
Five Minutes in the Future of Food
Five Minutes in the Future of Economic Justice
How to Interpret Signals
Your Turn! Analyze a Signal
Where do you look for signals? And other FAQ
Future of Work in 2030 - Signals Report
More Examples of Signals of Change
What's a signal of change?
Future of Work - Signals of Change
Look Back to Look Forward
Get Better at Noticing Change
How to Look Back to Look Forward (Part I)
How to Look Back to Look Forward (Part II)
Excerpt: Hope in the Dark
TOOL: Look Back to Look Forward
The Future of Work is Task-Based, not Time-Based
Who Invented Futures Thinking and Why?
Who invented futures thinking, and why?
Four Types of Futures Thinking
What's Your Future State of Mind?
The Four Types of Futures Thinking
Why I Future with Youth
Why I Future with Musicians
Why I Future with Incarcerated People
Why I Future with My City
Congratulations! You've finished this course
The Future as a Way of Life
A Guide to The Four Types of Futures Thinking
How Professional Futurists Imagine the Future
An invitation to join our free Alumni Network
Can you identify the four types of futures thinking?
Why do people use futures thinking in their work?
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