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Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

The Open University via OpenLearn

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Provider

OpenLearn
Pricing

Free Certificate
Languages

English
Certificate

Certificate Available
Effort

10 hours
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Advanced

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This free course provides a postgraduate level introduction to systems thinking in practice, or STiP. Systems thinking in practice itself has a long history and has developed from many different disciplinary traditions and used many different techniques and approaches, but all based on viewing complex situations as systems.The ideas about reflection in this course invite you to use your own personal experience as a major resource for the exploration of change management with STiP. The course complements the OpenLearn course Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP) and its context is described in the OpenLearn Systems Thinking Hub. This free course is an adapted extract from the Open University postgraduate course TB872 Managing change with systems thinking in practice.

Syllabus

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Week 1: Practising systems thinking in practice
Learning outcomes
1 What do we mean by systems?
2 Change through collective learning and action
3 Managing change with others
4 Managing change with STiP in your own context
5 Being reflexive with PFMS
6 Summary
References
Week 2: Practising STiP - Communities of Practice and Critical Social Learning Systems
1 Managing Change with others
2 Critical social learning systems
3 Communities of practice
4 Transforming your capabilities for managing change with STiP
5 Summary
6 Next steps in practising systems thinking in practice