- From iversity.org
Social Innovation MOOC
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Free certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Chapter 1: A New Innovation Paradigm
In this chapter, you will learn what “social innovation” means. You will get an overview of how social innovations can be developed and implemented. Also, we explain the differences between all the “social” something-concepts like social business, social entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibilities.
Chapter 2: The Spectrum of Social Innovation
There are different forms and formats of social innovation. Gain an overview of the variety of social innovations in this chapter. Specifically, you learn about social innovations that origin in civil society, business, and the social sector. Moreover, you will learn about cross-sector social innovations.
Chapter 3: Broaden your Horizon: Questioning the Existing and Recognising Challenges
Social innovators see opportunities where others see problems. Learn to change your perspective in order to recognise opportunities to solve societal problems with social innovations.
Chapter 4: Designing and Implementing Social Innovations: Tools
Design Thinking and Lean Start-up will help you to design social innovations together with your (future) beneficiaries. Furthermore, you learn how you can convince others by using effective storytelling.
Chapter 5: Designing and Implementing Social Innovations: Learning from Others
You will learn how others developed and implemented social innovations and how they learned to overcome resistance. Also, you learn about typical mechanisms of social value creation.
Chapter 6: Impact and Vision
In this chapter, you learn how to analyse the impact of social innovations and how you can increase the impact of social innovations using specific strategies of scaling and replication. Also, our experts will provide some suggestions and tips for future social innovators.
Prerequisite
Instructors
Nicholas Wenzel
Nicholas Wenzel is co-founder of InternsGoPro, a social enterprise certifying the quality of internships in Europe.
Between January 2012 and 2014 he worked at the World Vision Center for Social Innovation at the European Business School (EBS), Germany. At EBS he led the development of the Social Innovation MOOC.
Nicholas holds a Master degree in Sociology from the London School of Economics and a Master in Social Sciences from the Humboldt-University Berlin. Before joining EBS, he worked as a policy consultant with a focus on green finance policy.
Platform
iversity.org is a European-based online education platform. Since October 2013, iversity has specialised in providing online courses and lectures in higher education, specifically MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Courses are free and open for anyone to enrol and participate.Many of them are conducted in English or German, but also other languages.Iversity cooperates with individual professors as well as different European universities.
Some of the courses were winners of the MOOC Production Fellowship held in early 2013. iversity.org officially launched the MOOC platform online in October 2013 and as of February 2015 has a user base of 600,000 online learners, enrolled in 63 courses offered by 41 partner universities. iversity is the only MOOC platform offering courses with ECTS-integration.Iversity has branch offices in Bernau bei Berlin, Germany and Berlin.