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Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action

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Course Summary

Urgent Optimism is a course that explores the concept of gamification and how it can be used to solve real-world problems. The course focuses on the urgent optimism mindset and how it can be applied to various fields.

Key Learning Points

Learn about gamification and how it can be used for problem-solving
Understand the concept of urgent optimism and apply it to real-world situations
Explore case studies and examples of gamification in action

Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have

Game Designer
- USA: $70,000
- India: ₹5,00,000
- Spain: €30,000
Marketing Manager
- USA: $90,000
- India: ₹8,00,000
- Spain: €40,000
Product Manager
- USA: $100,000
- India: ₹12,00,000
- Spain: €50,000

Learning Outcomes

Understand how gamification can be used for problem-solving
Apply the urgent optimism mindset to real-world situations
Design and implement gamification strategies for various fields

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

Basic knowledge of game design principles
Familiarity with problem-solving techniques

Course Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Course Format

Online
Self-paced
Video Lectures

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Description

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.

Knowledge

Describe your preferred future
Create artifacts from the future
Build an action roadmap to change the future
Organize a community to change the future

Outline

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

Summary of User Reviews

Discover how to harness the power of urgent optimism in this course. Students have praised the course for its engaging content and practical applications.