What’s Your Big Idea?

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Free Online Course: What’s Your Big Idea? provided by Coursera is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 6 weeks long, 11 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Coursera. What’s Your Big Idea? is taught by Buck Goldstein and Holden Thorp.

Overview
  • Whether your interest lies in solving the world’s biggest problems, creating the next commercial success or addressing something closer to home, this course will give you a toolbox to vet your ideas and test them in the real world.

Syllabus
    • Think
      • We start at the beginning with your big idea and where it comes from: your everyday experience

        and known sources of innovation as described by Peter Drucker.
    • Listen
      • This second phase of the entrepreneurial lifecycle encourages you to take the big idea you’ve

        hought about and solicit feedback from the people whose problems you’re trying to solve.
    • Plan
      • Strategy, the art and science of being different than your competition, is the next element we introduce,

        based on Michael Porter’s work.
    • Clarify
      • In this module, we coach you on continuing to refine your big idea and beginning to

        communicate it clearly to a wider audience.
    • Support
      • To make your big idea into a reality, you’ll need the personal, professional, and financial

        esources we discuss in this module.
    • Iterate
      • This final step of the entrepreneurial lifecycle outlines a method to continue thinking, listening,

        planning, clarifying, and supporting your big idea.
    • Peer Assessment (Optional)
      • Create a pitch for your Big Idea, then give and receive feedback.
    • Reverse Pitches (Optional)
      • In these optional videos, experts from UNC Chapel Hill and Washington University in St. Louis offered

        heir insider perspectives on a number of pressing problems that present unprecedented opportunities

        for meaningful innovation.

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