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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore collaborates with edX to offer a certificate program called Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning. This course is formulated in a way that helps in crafting the candidate’s work experiences. It connects the information obtained from several areas into a lecture series and practical exercises.
This course is designed for any professional who wishes to create change through an inside-out approach and the focus of this course will be to work on the individual’s models of thinking and beliefs in regards to what they consider as work, success, identity, failure, and career. Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning certification course benefits the candidate in three levels namely the intellectual, the practical, and the experiential.
The learners can take the programme in two different tracks; the paid and free track. In the free audit track, the candidates will be given access only for a limited time period.
The Highlights
- 7 weeks of course duration programme
- English mode of instruction
- 100% e-learning course
- 2 to 4-hour candidate attendance per week
- Self-paced learning course type
- Free enrolment for a course audit
- Verified certificate provided by edX and IIM
- Course instructed by IIM-B Faculty, Ramya Ranganathan
Programme Offerings
- E-learning video sessions
- Video transcripts
- assessments
- MCQs
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 12432 | yes | IIM Bangalore |
Candidates are required to make a fee payment of Rs. 12,432 to enrol in the course.
Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning
Fee Details | Amount in Rs. |
Total fee | Rs. 12,432 |
Note: If the aspirant is not able to enrol for the course owing to lack of funds, he or she can avail the option to audit this course for free.
Eligibility Criteria
Work experience
Note: Candidates who engaged as an employee in some organization and wish to reinvent their approach to work life.
Education
This certificate Is open to people from all professions and educational backgrounds who have good writing and reading skills in English.
Certification qualifying details
The Online certificate is awarded to those candidates who take part in the assessment or assignments in the form of MCQs and must secure at least 60% in the overall assessment of the candidate in order to be awarded the verified certificate from edX.
What you will learn
In this Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning, the candidates will learn the following:
- Candidates will learn about crafting reality and the role our mental models play in processing information from the world around us.
- The candidate will be able to distinguish between objective and subjective reality.
- The candidate will demystify the meaning of success and understand the roles played by society in shaping the definition of success.
- The candidate will explore the values that are important for success.
- Candidates will learn about the term called “failure”, its effects, perfectionism, the art of resilience, and the tools required to adopt them in order to create a realistic attitude about failure.
- Candidates will learn the nature of work and redefine it with purpose.
- Candidates learn to leverage emotions and emotional intelligence to see the balance between productivity and happiness. Candidates learn to process negative emotions.
- Candidates will learn to create sustainable change with an innovative mindset and integrative thinking.
Who it is for
Admission Details
The Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning admission steps are:
Step 1: Visit the link https://courses.edx.org/register
Step 2: Create an account with your name, e-mail, and residence details.
Step 3: After registration, click on the “Enroll: button.
Step 4: There will be two options provided, one for Audit and another for Verified Track,
Step 5: Selected the “Verified” track to pursue the certificate.
Step 6: You will be redirected to the purchase page with the course added to the cart at the following link: https://payment.edx.org/
Step 7: Select the payment method for the programme either through Credit card or Paypal and click on “Place Order” to complete the payment.
The Syllabus
- How we make sense of the world around us and our experience in it?
- The role of our mental models in the way we process information from the world
- Distinguishing between objective and subjective reality
- Understanding how confirmation bias can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy
- How we define success for ourselves?
- The role played by society in shaping our definition of success
- Creating an awareness of our personal values to help us navigate this complexity
- Decoupling our own dreams from the expectations of other stakeholders in our lives
- Understanding the label of failure and the effects it has on us
- Exploring the attributes of perfectionism and how to overcome them
- Understanding resilience and tools to help us become more resilient
- Cultivating a healthy and realistic attitude to failure
- Nature and utility of work in everyday life
- Introduction to the flow state and its benefits
- Crafting a more empowering inner definition of work
- Consciously cultivating meaning and purpose in work
- The connection between happiness and productivity
- Overcoming our innate bias towards the negative and dealing with negative emotions
- Shifting our happiness baseline and choosing to play to our strengths
- Cultivating emotional intelligence and using mirror neurons to our advantage
- Creating and sustaining change
- Cultivating an innovation mindset and avoiding generalized conclusions
- Digging deeper with Integrative thinking
- Savoring the journey and managing personal energy
Instructors
IIM Bangalore Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and the Meaning course is self-paced by nature and candidates do not have a rush for a specific time during the day to attend the lectures.
Yes. The candidates can pursue this course for free as an audit free of cost
Students who audit the course do not get access to work on graded assignments. Candidates should have a good working knowledge of at least one programming language and computer.
The course requires the student to dedicate 2 to 4 hours per week for successful progression of the Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning course from one week to another.
The participant must have scored at least 60% or more in all the graded assessments in the course.
Each week’s syllabus has a certain percentage of the total score awarded for the student. Each student must attend all MCQ based assessments to secure a given percentage in a week.
No. The Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and the Meaning course doesn’t require any technical skills and only requires the candidate to have good proficiency in reading and writing the English language.