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October 15, 2019 05:27 pm PDT

Jane McGonigal and Institute for the Future: Free online course "How To Think Like a Futurist"

My Institute for the Future colleague Jane McGonigal is teaching a series of 5 online courses on Futures Thinking and they're free to audit! Of course nobody can predict the future but imagining the longterm future can certainly help you make better decisions in the present. Congrats Jane and IFTF! From Coursera:

Do you want to think about the future with more creativity and optimism? Do you want to see whats 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 whats 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, youll build your understanding of what futures thinking is and what you can do with it. Youll master essential foresight techniques. Youll meet some professional futurists. And youll 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.

Ready, Set, Future! Introduction to Futures Thinking (Coursera) Read the rest


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