Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future

  • 4.9
Approx. 15 hours to complete

Course Summary

Collaborative Foresight is a course that teaches you how to anticipate and respond to future trends and challenges by combining the expertise of multiple stakeholders. You'll learn how to use tools and techniques to facilitate collaboration and co-creation, and develop a strategic foresight mindset.

Key Learning Points

  • Learn how to anticipate and respond to future trends and challenges
  • Develop a strategic foresight mindset
  • Use tools and techniques to facilitate collaboration and co-creation

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Learning Outcomes

  • Apply foresight tools and techniques to real-world challenges
  • Facilitate collaboration and co-creation between multiple stakeholders
  • Develop a strategic foresight mindset

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

  • No prior knowledge or experience required
  • A willingness to learn and collaborate with others

Course Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Course Format

  • Online
  • Self-paced
  • Interactive

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Description

You’ll never have a complete picture of what's possible in the future if you look at it from just one point of view. The best way to expand your vision? Engage as many people as you can, and “game out” the possibilities together.

Knowledge

  • Design and run a multiplayer forecasting game
  • Game out hard-to-predict consequences in any future scenario
  • Anticipate long-term harms of new technologies and how to prevent them
  • Create diverse, inclusive futures thinking communities

Outline

  • 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
  • An invitation to join our free Alumni Network

Summary of User Reviews

Collaborative Foresight is a highly rated course on Coursera that teaches how to predict future trends and create strategies through group collaboration. Users rave about the interactive exercises and engaging instructors.

Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course

Interactive exercises and engaging instructors

Pros from User Reviews

  • Instructors are knowledgeable and passionate about the subject matter
  • Interactive exercises help solidify concepts and make the learning experience enjoyable
  • Course provides practical tools and frameworks to apply in real-world scenarios

Cons from User Reviews

  • Some users found the content to be too basic or repetitive
  • Course may not be suitable for those looking for a more traditional lecture-style format
  • Some users experienced technical issues with the platform or course materials
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Jane McGonigal
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Jane McGonigal

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