Systems thinking and practice
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Learn about systems thinking and practice in this free course. Understand key concepts like boundary, environment, and feedback. Improve your analytical skills and gain confidence in using systems language. Discover how systems thinking differs from other forms of thinking. Expand your understanding of systems as intellectual constructs.
What is systems thinking and practice? The essence of systems thinking and practice is in ‘seeing’ the world in a particular way, because how you ‘see’ things affects the way you approach situations or undertake specific tasks. This free course will help you to learn about the problems of defining a system and meet some of the key concepts used in systems theory: boundary, environment, positive and negative feedback, etc.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Display confidence in using systems concepts and language
Describe accurately the set of key systems concepts
Understand what is distinctive about systems thinking as opposed to other forms of thinking
Understand how systems thinking is useful in analysing and improving situations
Understand the notion of a system as a creation of the observer, i.e. as an intellectual construct, as opposed to using the term system in other ways, i.e. as entities that exist ‘out there’.
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