Learning Opportunities

This free 6 week course is for anyone who wants to make a difference. 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. The course will debunk common assumptions around what resources are needed to begin acting as a social innovator learning from the numerous examples of social innovations happening all over the world. 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. This course is suitable for business students, business owners, start-ups, entrepreneurs and professionals in any sector seeking to bring about social change. Click here for more details and to enrol ...
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This free online course will focus on basic concepts and definitions, such as social expectations and conditional preferences, that help us distinguish between different types of social practices like customs, descriptive norms and social norms. These distinctions are crucial for effective policy interventions aimed to create new, beneficial norms or eliminate harmful ones. The course teaches how to measure social norms and the expectations that support them, and how to decide whether they cause specific behaviors. The course is a joint Penn-UNICEF project, and it includes many examples of norms that sustain behaviors like child marriage, gender violence and sanitation practices. The course starts on 13 August. Click here to enrol ...
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Abstract: In this course you will learn learn how to interview victims of human rights abuses and how to correctly document their cases. You will also learn the basics of human rights law and how to report rights violations to international bodies. The CUNY Brooklyn College course is taught by UN expert and human rights professional Rose Parris Richter. About this course: This course is designed for human rights activists who want to learn how to document human rights abuses using interviews and testimonies with witnesses and victims. You will receive an introduction to international human rights law to help you prepare your research and formulate interview questions. You will learn how the professionals guide an interview towards the most important and accurate information, and then report this information in a clear and credible way. UN expert and human rights professional Rose Richter will provide you with the fundamental skills needed to effectively document and raise awareness about human rights abuses. Click here to enrol ...
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This free short introductory course on social media will strengthen the capacity of global health and development professionals interested in understanding basic principles of social media, using social media to disseminate global health and development information, and measuring social media activities. The course is authored by subject matter experts and can be completed in two hours. Learners can access a course in multiple visits and a pick up where they left off at any time. Click here for further details ...
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