COURSE DESCRIPTION
An introduction to the challenges that both public leadership and governance face in an increasingly digital and globalized world. The content is based on theories and models with global applicability, and uses examples on how Swedish public leadership and governance have met real crises.
About the course
This course is an accessible introduction to the challenges that both public leadership and governance face in an increasingly digital and globalized world. The content is based on theories and models with global applicability, and uses examples on how Swedish public leadership and governance have met real crises such as climate change, COVID-19, migration crisis, ageing population. The course provides an understanding of how public leadership and governance can address digitalization in sustainable ways building on Swedish illustrations.
Topic covered by the course
You will get an comprehensive introduction to the challenges that public leadership and governance structure will face through digitalization process.
Engage with the topic through your own work and reflection and practice on peer-review on a particular topic.
Engage with a selection of relevant and up-to date literature that will be accessible through the course.
Who can take the course?
The course is open to everyone and free. There are no requirements for prior knowledge or special qualifications to participate in the course.
Course structure
The course is web-based and is conducted entirely remotely via a web-based course platform. It is divided into four modules:
Learn more about climate change’s impact on society and how you can lead a wide range of transition processes and practically work with climate transitions within different areas. Ongoing and future climate impacts on different parts of society, the attempts to try to build sustainability within planetary boundaries and interconnected international crises’ have created a unique situation concerning the issues’ urgency, complexity and uncertainty. Within this shifting landscape knowledgeable, creative and brave leaders and citizens are necessary to being able to fundamentally change how businesses, regions, municipalities and different organizations work and achieve results. This online course introduces climate science, climate change’s impact on society, different perspectives on the causes and possible solutions to the climate dilemma, climate justice and international agreements, carbon budgets and different climate scenarios, leadership within different contexts on different levels, key areas for successful transitions and different good examples of climate transitions, the individual’s and the collective’s possibilities and responsibilities, and concrete first steps towards transitions work within your work and local context.
What can we do to address the sustainability challenges we face? In this course, you will gain insight into how individuals, organisations and societies approach sustainability challenges in different ways. In various parts of the world different challenges are prioritized and thereby, various approaches and solutions are needed. You will learn about the considerations needed to make decisions of how to prioritize sustainable development. You will also be introduced to different strategies for changing values, attitudes and behaviours. The course introduces enforcements that are applied to influence individuals within companies and in the society at large, including different incentives and instruments to ensure more sustainable behaviours. This course is relevant to professionals working in industry, policymakers, or students in engineering. What you'll learn Identify and prioritize solutions based on different perspectives About how the values, attitudes and behaviours for sustainable development are connected About different environmental management tools How to implement organizational learning, incentives and instruments to change behaviours for sustainable development Concepts used in the current sustainability debate See all free online courses that KTH offers
This course emphasizes that systems-based changes are needed to achieve a sustainable world. In the past, dominant theories of change have neglected these complex conditions. In part, it includes the belief that change can be managed, planned, and controlled. This course suggests more contemporary theories where you are more inclusive, being many stakeholders and use fluid ways of creating change. Similar compositions of ideas have been tested in the honours track Change Maker Future Track at LU School of Economics and Management. At the end of the course, the participants will have a better chance of: a. Understanding of the systemic nature of sustainability b. Understanding of systems theory, and the concepts of complexity and wicked problems c. Understanding of systems innovation and change d. Having an overview of some tools for describing and analysing complex problems and contexts e. Having an overview of contemporary theories of change f. Having an in-depth understanding of the concept of Catalytic Leadership and Change
Målet med kursen är att ge lärare fortbildning inom ämnet djurvälfärd och hållbarhet. Kursens mål är också att ge lärare inspiration att designa sin egen undervisning, att ge lärare möjlighet att ta till sig ny forskning och att dela med sig av läraktiviteter som kan användas av fler.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a networking paradigm which enables different devices (from thermostats to autonomous vehicles) to collect valuable information and exchange it with other devices using different communications protocols over the Internet. This technology allows to analyse and correlate heterogeneous sources of information, extract valuable insights, and enable better decision processes. Although the IoT has the potential to revolutionise a variety of industries, such as healthcare, agriculture, transportation, and manufacturing, IoT devices also introduce new cybersecurity risks and challenges. In this course, the students will obtain an in-depth understanding of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the associated cybersecurity challenges. The course covers the fundamentals of IoT and its applications, the communication protocols used in IoT systems, the cybersecurity threats to IoT, and the countermeasures that can be deployed. The course is split in four main modules, described as follows: Understand and illustrate the basic concepts of the IoT paradigm and its applications Discern benefits and drawback of the most common IoT communication protocols Identify the cybersecurity threats associated with IoT systems Know and select the appropriate cybersecurity countermeasures Course Plan Module 1: Introduction to IoT Definition and characteristics of IoT IoT architecture and components Applications of IoT Module 2: Communication Protocols for IoT Overview of communication protocols used in IoT MQTT, CoAP, and HTTP protocols Advantages and disadvantages of each protocol Module 3: Security Threats to IoT Overview of cybersecurity threats associated with IoT Understanding the risks associated with IoT Malware, DDoS, and phishing attacks Specific vulnerabilities in IoT devices and networks Module 4: Securing IoT Devices and Networks Overview of security measures for IoT systems Network segmentation, access control, and encryption Best practices for securing IoT devices and networks Organisation and Examination Study hours: 80 hours distributed over 7 weeks Scehduled online seminars: January 30th 2024, February 12th 2024 and 11th of March Examination, one of the following: Analysis and presentation of relevant manuscripts in the literature Bring your own problem (BYOP) and solution. For example, analyse the cybersecurity of the IoT network of your company and propose improvements The number of participants in the course is limited, so please hurry with your application!
KursinnehållKursen syftar till att ge en introduktion och överblick av artificiell intelligens. Fokus ligger på att förstå begreppet och några viktiga tekniker som hur sökning och maskininlärning fungerar samt konsekvenser av AI på samhället. Börja läsa när du vill Du kan börja läsa kursen i stort sett när du vill då kursen är en online-kurs med flexibel antagning. Du gör ansökan till den termin du tänker börja läsa kursen. Vill du börja direkt så ansöker du till innevarande termin, eller så väljer du den termin du tänker börja. Termin väljer du här ovan, så kommer du till rätt ansökningstillfälle. KursformatKursen är en distanskurs som görs i egen takt och hanteras i sin helhet i en web-baserad kursmiljö. Kursen baseras på självstudier av kursmaterialet och examineras med självrättande tester och inlämningar. Du som har gjort Elements of AI kan anmäla dig till den här kursen för att få dina resultat validerade. Det gäller både den svenska och den engelska versionen av kursen. Du måste inte göra om kursen, däremot måste du ladda upp certifikatet från Elements of AI och göra ett valideringstest med frågor motsvarande de som finns i Elements of AI för att säkerställa att det verkligen är du som gått igenom kursen. För mer information se denna länk. Kursen handleds över internet. Information om behörighetObservera att du vid ansökan till kursen måste kunna styrka att du har grundläggande behörighet. Om dina gymnasiemeriter inte redan finns på dina sidor på antagning.se så behöver du ladda upp gymnasieexamen, eller motsvarande, på antagning.se i samband med din ansökan.