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
Instructor: Jane McGonigal
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Skills you'll gain
- Forecasting
- Adaptability
- Systems Thinking
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Action Oriented
- Organizational Leadership
- Social Impact
- Strategic Thinking
- Organizational Change
- Contingency Planning
- Visionary
- Social Determinants Of Health
- Resilience
- Risk Analysis
- Risk Management
- Dealing With Ambiguity
- Crisis Management
- Proactivity
- Community Organizing
- Culture Transformation
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There are 4 modules in this course
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.
Are you ready to zoom out of the present and into the future? This week, you'll learn how to get into a "post-pandemic" mindset. You'll discover the four patterns of change to watch during any major disruption or crisis. You'll hear the Institute for the Future's forecast for what Life After Covid-19 will be like over the next 3-5 years, including the biggest risks, opportunities and dilemmas. And you'll find out how, exactly, the Institute forecasts pandemics and their surprising long-term consequences. You'll end the week by making your own first post-pandemic future forecast.
What's included
10 videos6 readings1 assignment1 peer review4 discussion prompts
10 videos•Total 124 minutes
- Welcome to the course!•6 minutes
- Get into a post-pandemic mindset•11 minutes
- Why you can trust the Institute for the Future's forecasts•15 minutes
- The 4 patterns of change to watch •16 minutes
- Pattern #1: Post-pandemic growth•13 minutes
- Pattern #2: Post-pandemic constraint•19 minutes
- Pattern #3: Post-pandemic collapse•16 minutes
- Pattern #4: Post-pandemic transformation•21 minutes
- How to make your first post-pandemic forecast•3 minutes
- Week 1 review, and what’s next •3 minutes
6 readings•Total 4 minutes
- OPTIONAL: When will it end? How a changing virus is reshaping scientists’ views on COVID-19•3 minutes
- Important notice for Life After Covid-19 learners•1 minute
- OPTIONAL: After the Pandemic: What Happens Next?•0 minutes
- OPTIONAL: Excerpt from "Reality is Broken"•0 minutes
- OPTIONAL: During a pandemic, we urgently need to stretch our imagination•0 minutes
- OPTIONAL: What is Futures Thinking?•0 minutes
1 assignment•Total 5 minutes
- Patterns of Change to Watch•5 minutes
1 peer review•Total 25 minutes
- Make Your First Post-Pandemic Forecast•25 minutes
4 discussion prompts•Total 12 minutes
- Share an example of growth•3 minutes
- Share an example of constraint•3 minutes
- Share an example of collapse•3 minutes
- Share an example of transformation•3 minutes
Are you ready to "ride the rollercoaster" of post-pandemic recovery and reinvention? This week, you'll explore the 7 urgent challenges that will define the post-pandemic recovery. You'll learn how to use the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report, to prioritize risks for your community or organization. You'll play "The First 5 Minutes of the Future", a game that can help you prepare for "unimaginable" future shocks. And you'll use everything you learn this week to make your own first plan for resilience.
What's included
9 videos4 readings1 assignment1 peer review3 discussion prompts
9 videos•Total 129 minutes
- Welcome back, and get ready to “ride the roller coaster”•3 minutes
- Give yourself a future boost•8 minutes
- The Deeper Disease (part 1)•26 minutes
- The Deeper Disease (part 2)•23 minutes
- The Risks Ahead •14 minutes
- The First 5 Minutes of the Future (part 1 - HOW TO PLAY )•24 minutes
- The First 5 Minutes of the Future (part 2 - SCENARIOS) •25 minutes
- Make your first plan for resilience•4 minutes
- Week 2 review, and what’s next•3 minutes
4 readings
- OPTIONAL: The Deeper Disease•0 minutes
- OPTIONAL: World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2021•0 minutes
- OPTIONAL: The First 5 Minutes of the Future•0 minutes
- OPTIONAL: Future Boosting Techniques•0 minutes
1 assignment•Total 5 minutes
- The Deeper Disease•5 minutes
1 peer review•Total 25 minutes
- Make Your First Plan for Resilience•25 minutes
3 discussion prompts•Total 15 minutes
- Scenario: The Great Disconnection•5 minutes
- Scenario: The Leak•5 minutes
- Scenario: The Deepfake•5 minutes
This week, you'll learn how to practice the 3 most important habits of professional futurists. You'll choose your own "driving forces" to track. You'll collect and analyze "signals of change." And you'll play the game, "100 Ways Anything Can Be Different in the Future", to unstick your mind and stretch your imagination about what might change after the pandemic. These habits will teach you how to keep anticipating what's next, long after the current pandemic is over.
What's included
7 videos2 readings2 assignments1 peer review2 discussion prompts
7 videos•Total 60 minutes
- Welcome back, and get ready to “think like a futurist”•2 minutes
- 100 Ways Anything Could Be Different in the Future - part 1•10 minutes
- 100 Ways Anything Could Be Different in the Future - part 2•10 minutes
- Habit #1: Track driving forces•8 minutes
- Habit #2: Collect signals of change•14 minutes
- Habit #3: Challenge your assumptions•13 minutes
- Week 3 review, and what’s next•3 minutes
2 readings
- OPTIONAL: Counterfactual Thinking is the Key to Creativity, and a Vaccine for 'Future Shock•0 minutes
- OPTIONAL: 100 Ways Anything Could Be Different in the Future•0 minutes
2 assignments•Total 15 minutes
- Which driving forces will you track?•5 minutes
- How to think like a futurist•10 minutes
1 peer review•Total 20 minutes
- Flip 3 facts for the future•20 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 15 minutes
- How is your life different, as a result of the pandemic?•5 minutes
- Share a signal of change•10 minutes
What action can you take right now, to shape a better life after Covid-19? This week, you'll learn how to use the Institute for the Future's Toolkit for Transformation. Think of it as a cooperative card game, played with 3 decks. You can use the toolkit to inspire your own thinking about how to make a better world after the pandemic. You can also use the toolkit with groups to lead conversations about the future. After you learn how to use the Toolkit, you'll complete a final project: Choose Your Own Action for Post-Pandemic Transformation.
What's included
6 videos3 readings1 peer review1 discussion prompt
6 videos•Total 52 minutes
- Welcome back, and get oriented to IFTF’s Toolkit for Transformation•5 minutes
- Tool #1 Patterns from the past•6 minutes
- Tool #2 Innovations for the future•10 minutes
- Tool #3 Actions for transformation•12 minutes
- Your final project instructions •12 minutes
- Congratulations! Let’s keep futuring together •7 minutes
3 readings•Total 2 minutes
- OPTIONAL Toolkit for Transformation•0 minutes
- OPTIONAL: Actionable Advice for the World After the Virus•0 minutes
- Join the Institute for the Future's free alumni network!•2 minutes
1 peer review•Total 60 minutes
- Choose Your Own Action for Transformation•60 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 5 minutes
- What will you take away from this course?•5 minutes
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Reviewed on May 23, 2021
The course was very fantastic and by enrolling in the course I came to get a good knowledge about COVID-19 and life after COVID-19.
Reviewed on Jun 6, 2021
This was such an amazing course! Thank you, Jane for excellent content! I learned so much!
Reviewed on Dec 19, 2021
Learned so much taking this course. Gave me food for thought and lots of information to share with my colleges.
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