Becoming a Changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation

Want to make a difference in your community or organization?

About the course
Whether you are already familiar with the field of social innovation or social entrepreneurship, working for an organization that wants to increase its social impact, or just starting out, this course will take you on a journey of exploring the complex problems that surround us and how to start thinking about solutions.

We will debunk common assumptions around what resources are needed to begin acting as a social innovator and will learn from the numerous examples of social innovations happening all over the world. By the end of the course, you will have formed your own approach to social innovation, and you will have begun to develop the concepts, mindset, skills, and relationships that will enable you to start and evolve as a changemaker.

Course content

• Module 1: What's our problem?
• Module 2: What do we have to work with?
• Module 3: Getting out of your comfort zone
• Module 4: Innovating by design
• Module 5: Changing the system - who me?
• Module 6: What if it works?

Registration
This five-week, online course is offered by Coursera and is free. Read more and enrol here.