MOOC: BECOMING A CHANGEMAKER - INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL INNOVATION COURSE
This is a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) being offered by the Bertha Centre and RLabs in partnership with UCT's Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (UCT CILT)
The Becoming a changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation MOOC is a free six-week course for anyone who wants to make a difference.
MOOCs are free online courses and have no entry requirements. Anyone with an internet connection can take part. Whether you are already familiar with the field of social innovation or social entrepreneurship, working for an organisation 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.
You will be challenged to get out of your comfort zone and start engaging with the diverse spaces around you. 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.
'We are excited about pioneering a new kind of MOOC that will reach deeper into communities. It will also advance access to quality education in order to catalyse social change.' - Dr. François Bonnici, former Director of the Bertha Centre
The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship co-created this course with RLabs, a social movement in Cape Town that is now active in 22 countries. RLabs empowers youth through innovative and disruptive technology by teaching them vital skills and providing much needed support and a sense of community. Advocating and supporting initiatives such as RLabs forms part of the Bertha Centre's mandate.
Is this course for me?
If you've always wanted to create social impact in your community or your business but didn't know where to start, the skills, tools and methodologies will help you get going. If you are already involved in a social business and want to take it to the next level, you'll find a supportive community, examples and case studies to inspire you. This course is suitable for business students, business owners, start-ups, entrepreneurs and professionals in any sector seeking to bring about social change.
What did some of the participants have to say?
"I highly recommend this most inspirational course. The content, case studies and structure of the course was of excellent expert quality in every way." - Sadia Deane
"I have just finished the course and cannot express enough how energizing and motivating it was to be taken on a journey of out the box thinking and new vision towards social problems with examples of down to earth achievable solutions." - Anonymous
Course information
This free interactive six-week course offers a rich learning experience that blends theory and practice with a focus on the latter.
- Week: 1 What's our problem?
- Week: 2 What do we have to work with?
- Week: 3 Getting out of your comfort zone
- Week: 4 Innovating by design
- Week: 5 Changing the system - who me?
- Week: 6 What if it works?
For more information, please contact Luvuyo Maseko via email on
luvuyo.maseko@gsb.uct.ac.za
Course Convenors:
Dr. François Bonnici
Marlon Parker
Senior Lecturer Warren Nilsson
Dates:
Please note that registration opens two weeks prior to the start date of each window and you have until the first Friday of the first week to register for your chosen running of the course.
18 September - 6 November 2017
13 November 2017 - 1 January 2018
11 December 2017 - 29 January 2018
8 January - 26 February 2018
5 February - 26 March 2018
5 March - 23 April 2018
25 June – 13 August 2018
23 July – 10 September 2018
20 August – 8 October 2018
17 September – 5 November 2018
15 October – 3 December 2018
For more information regarding course content, structure and to sign up, please click here.
Tuition fee: Free
Optional course certificates are available at US$29 and financial aid can be requested to cover this cost.
