Becoming a changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation

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课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/social-innovation

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课程名称：成为变革者：社会创新入门 课程概述：本课程为期6周，免费开放，适合任何希望产生积极影响的人。无论您对社会创新或社会企业的了解如何，或您所在的组织希望提升社会影响力，亦或您刚刚起步，本课程将带您探索周围复杂的问题以及如何思考解决方案。我们将揭穿关于成为社会创新者所需资源的常见假设，并通过全球范围内的多个社会创新案例进行学习。您将被鼓励走出舒适区，积极与身边多样化的环境互动。到课程结束时，您将形成自己对社会创新的理解，并开始发展相关理念、心态、技能和关系，助力您成为变革者。 如果您希望证明自己的成就，可以选择购买经过验证的证书，但这是可选的；如果您无法支付证书费用，可以申请经济援助。 本课程由伯塔社会创新与企业中心与RLabs（一个源自开普敦布里奇顿的社会运动，现已在22个国家活跃）共同创建。该运动通过创新和颠覆性的技术赋能青年，教授他们必要的技能，并提供支持与社区感。支持诸如RLabs这样的倡议是伯塔中心的使命之一。该中心是开普敦大学商学院的一个专业单位，也是非洲第一个致力于推动社会创新与企业精神的学术中心。 课程大纲： 1. 我们的问题是什么？ – 认识简单、复杂和复杂系统中的“棘手”问题。 2. 我们有什么资源？ – 发展基于优势的思维方式，发现潜在资源。 3. 走出舒适区 – 学习如何在多样的环境中交互并接受不适。 4. 设计创新 – 探讨以人为本的设计思维及其在社会创新中的应用。 5. 改变系统——我能做到吗？ – 了解社会创新如何挑战并改变根本系统。 6. 如果成功怎么办？ – 探讨如何实现社会创新的影响和规模化。 更多信息及课程预告片请访问：www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcWYG64WO20。您也可以使用话题标签 #socinnMOOC 在推特上讨论本课程。

课程大纲

Name:What's our problem?

Description:Welcome to Becoming a changemaker! This week, we distinguish between simple, complicated and complex problems. Social innovation takes place in complex systems and complex systems have complex or “wicked” problems, like the kinds of problems the world is trying to tackle right now such as climate change, HIV Aids and other pandemics, poverty and inequality. A complex system has many variables or elements such as different sorts of people, material and rules and those elements of the system are interacting with each other so much that the complexity increases exponentially. So the work of complexity is about bringing yourself into the system, engaging with it, living with it and innovating in yourself as you innovate in that system that you’re working in. You can’t look at the whole system but you can look at more than one piece of it. The more you start to bring in different parts of the systems, you can then start to connect those in ways that they weren’t connected before.

Name:What do we have to work with?

Description:One of the hallmarks of very innovative organizations and people is that they see resources where other people don’t, and they can bring those resources to bear to create new innovative solutions. There’s transformative power in shifting from looking at needs, gaps, and what’s wrong, to appreciating strengths, resources and what’s right. Through developing a strength-based mindset and an appreciative approach you can discover hidden or underused resources. These resources might be people, kinds of knowledge and expertise, time, and physical spaces. As soon as you start seeing resources all around you, not only can you move forward but you become energised and hopeful, and creative things start to happen. You’ll find that you might be a lot richer than you think in terms of what you have to start building your own social innovation with.

Name:Getting out of your comfort zone

Description:By nature the world of social innovation is made of crossing boundaries, bringing together different actors, resources, spaces, but it can be overwhelming. Part of our challenge on the journey to becoming changemakers is to learn how to become comfortable with discomfort and how in the social innovation space where you take yourself into spaces and you surround yourself with people that you normally do not engage with. Understanding how we define differences using cultural, sociological, psychological and spiritual lenses and what the nature of the differences is helps to develop tools for getting out of your comfort zone. It takes a little bit of courage because it makes you uncomfortable, but that’s how you build the competencies, the personal resilience to engage with difference when we do go and drive for innovations or we look to make differences in communities that are unlike us or operate in a different way.

Name:Innovating by design

Description:A number of methodologies and processes can help generate ideas and creative opportunities, and some of these have been used in business to generate new products and services, and are starting to be applied in social innovation. Human-centred design is incredibly important, and the Design Thinking process allows you to start early and wherever you are with whatever you’ve got. Design Thinking has evolved as a way to respond to deeper user insights, to connect more with people and with communities so that we can actually design solutions that are human-centred. Design Thinking is not just about products, but also helps create new processes, new systems, new services, and importantly even user experiences. Following a Design Thinking process will help you iterate and test your solution with end users, with an emphasis on failing early and often through trying things out and prototyping. Powerful Design Thinking methodology can help you to come up with human-centred design solutions that manifest economic viability, technical feasibility and social desirability in your social innovation.

Name:Changing the system - who me?

Description:Understanding that social innovation is system innovation can help us appreciate why social innovation is so difficult to do. Social innovations can start to challenge and change the underlying system conditions that caused the social or environmental problem in the first place. We are asked to innovate around belief systems, or around authority, power, and resource flows. So, a social innovation challenges the rules of the game. Asking what’s innovative about the work means asking questions around the experiences of where an innovation might be changing the rules of the games and allows us to go deeper into the kinds of impacts that might be possible, and discover hidden impacts. When any kind of social innovation starts to get at the systemic roots, we’re going to be provoking anxiety. So it’s quite helpful to map out the social system and the rules that govern it and then to consider how you are challenging these rules through the innovation.

Name:What if it works?

Description:In the end social innovation is about impact. We’re all trying to have a meaningful, positive effect on the world, whatever that might mean to us. If we do this and we’re actually successful, this is going to take us sooner or later to the question of scale. How do we grow that innovation? As social innovations mature, the forms they could take and the multiple ways in which you could organise around achieving impact increase. It used to be easy to label organisations according to non-profit and for profit, and government institutions based on their purpose, its organisational structure and the way it measured what it achieved. That’s all changing. There are different ways to diffuse and scale the work that we’re doing to achieve impact.

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