Courses Descriptions

IE 00 Foundation Course to Inspiration Economy

This )optional( orientation course will focus on the role of inspiration economy in creating a difference in the life and the professional contribution of those who want to make a social andeconomic change, besides deal with complex community problems solving. The course train the students how to exploit the opportunities within any community or setting that lead to outcome.

Module I Foundation Courses (All are Compulsory)

IE 01 Introduction to Inspiration Economy

(Theories & Practices)

This course will tackle the evolution of Inspiration Economy from its original idea till its latest developments. The course sets the boundaries of inspiration economy and its role in creating an economy driven by inspiration. The course will then present the processes of moving this concept to the societies and the way it should be promoted from planning till commercialisation phases. Students would be encouraged to discuss the different stakeholders in Inspiration Economy projects and would be smoothly introduced to the insights that brought the Inspiration Economy theories and practices and how it has developed so far.

IE 01B Inspiration Economics Theories

This course deals with the development of the theories of the economics of inspiration which have been developed through field experiments, analysis, assimilation, and perception. The course outlines the role of these theories in creating an economy driven by inspiration. The course then reviews the interrelationship between the types of theories in the concept of building and developing societies and the interconnectedness between them. Insights on the theories of the economy of inspiration and the practices of how they have developed so far are discussed, including theories of youth and resilience economics, learning through exploration, influencing without authority, and others.

IE 02 Methods of Observation & Opportunities Discovering

This course is designed to introduce students to one of the best basic tools for ‘Inspiration Labs’ that is the methods of observation that leads to discovering opportunities. The course covers the "what" and "why" observation is important in relevance to exploiting communities challenges and its related unexploited opportunities. The students are guided to surf in the types and stages of the observation during different data collection situations and then how these observations are assimilated into the stage of absorption before it is turned into reflections and realisation. The course is considered the basis of the field experimentation and community development projects, besides it helps to enhance the perspectives of the students to see the problem, or the challenges, or the future from a holistic view.

IE 02B Methods of Observation & Opportunities Discovering (Level 2)

This course is designed to further introduce the students to advanced tools of "inspiration laboratories methods of observations” that lead to deeper exploration of the hidden opportunities. The course covers "what" and "why". The observationslearned in this course are important in terms of exploiting complex community challenges and the untapped opportunities associated with them. Students are guided in the types and stages of collecting field and practical observation and how to internalize these observations before they become conclusions and perceptions. The course is considered the basis for field experiments and community development projects. It also helps to enhance students' perspectives to know the problem, the challenges, or the future from a comprehensive holistic perspective.

IE 03 Best Practices in Writing Case Studies

The student would learn in this course how to capture the proper inputs about the socio-economic problem and describe the conditions of the problem. The course focus on building the competency of writing papers, and projects case studies.The background of the problem and its current or the future challenge help the student to appreciate and describe the solution. The course starts from the stage of writing project proposals, to how to prepare project that wouldcreate an inspiring story and legacy.

IE 04 Lifelong Learning Studies

This course is designed to discuss the concepts of (lifelong learning) and its role in the development of socio-economy and problem solving. The student will go through lifelong learning and how it contributes to the vision of (Inspiration Economy Labs) while helping in the discovery and development of opportunities. The course also focuses on the interconnectedness between the learning economy and creativity, besidesunderstanding their impact on the currency of inspiration.

IE 04B Lifelong Learning & Entrepreneurial Learning Practices

This course is designed to establish a spirit and a mindset that the future inspiration economy expert should carry through continuous professional development that comes through taking challenges in life and the community. Thestudent would bridge between lifelong learning (LLL) and the experiential learning that inspiration economy uses for opportunity discovery and development. The course would focus on entrepreneurial learning practices required for the inspiration labs. The course would bring social inclusion, active citizenship, and life purposefulness that help raise and maintain the capacity of the inspiration economy expert.

Module II Core Courses (Choose 4 Course)

IE 05 Mindset & Psychology of Inspiration

The course targets to establish the linkage between the concepts of inspiration and positive psychology. The students in this course are asked to measure the effectiveness of the mindset (which is a collection of assumptions, behaviours, attitudes and reflections) on the total inspiration journey. The positive psychology history and development of its practices are discussed. The human brain development,especially in a knowledge-based economy, is also discussed in detail. This course presents the main guidelines of what and how to deal with the mindsets of any project stakeholders as part of the process of change and inspiration engineering.

IE 06 Inspiration Economy Models

The purpose of this course to show first the background of why it is important in inspiration-based economy to establish ‘live models’that can be a show case and a reference for non-capital economy approach that leads to a socio-economic development. Models creation and challenges are discussed in detail with many examples in relevance to different industries and in different contexts. The students would be challenged in this course to work in teams to create successful models that would impact or influence their socio-economy and would go through experiencing the process of creating change, managing change, and thus finding state of stability and sustainability of the created models.

IE 07 Problem Solving & Forecasting of Future Challenges

This course focus on raising the students’ abilities for handling problems which it is called in IE as (Challenges). The course takes the student smoothly through cases where challenges were turned into opportunities. It focuses on divergent thinking, i.e. the ability to think and develop multiple ideas and concepts as a way to solve challenges which people usually call them problems. Through a series of challenges,real-life scenarios, and actual case studies, the students develop both an understanding of how use the tools of problems solving such as observations, management of mindset, etc. to interpolate different findings or possibilitiestocrack-out what is called problems. The course helps in understanding how un-structured approaches and disruptive thinking can help to creating success stories in overcoming challenges. The course also helps the students to live the "school of life" by learning how to work outside of their existing comfort zone and to recognise the value of exploring problem inspiring solutions, especially in their organisations and communities.

IE-07B Strategic Studies in Socio-Economy Solutions

This course focuses on raising students' abilities to develop and explore strategies that help develop social and economic outcomes. The course takes the student smoothly through situations in which strategies help to identify challenges and turn the action plan into opportunities. The study of the socio-economy issues from top to bottom, using strategy helps to develop multiple ideas as a way to solve challenges. The course integrates strategic analysis with real, social, and economic scenarios through actual case studies.

IE 08 Currency of Inspiration Economy

The course focuses on how the inspiration economy currency is associated with the (capacity-vs-demand) equation, where the student get a demonstration the impact of currency today and in the future in light of economic instability that depends entirely on (supply-vs-demand). The student will learn the importance of the state of certainty in seeing and realizing all socio-economic issues, and the need to diversify currencies that help the development of people. Where students will be challenged about ways to create an "inspiration-based economy currency", and how it relates to performance. The learning material will be full of exercises and projects aimed at measuring the role of currency in all types of social economic projects. The role of this currency in making the transition from traditional thinking to creative thinking will also be disuccsed.

IE 09 Knowledge, Innovation & Learning Economy

This course equips the students to review and analyse the progress of knowledge, innovation and learning economies and how they play a role in the coming inspiration economy. Definition and then the projection of the influence of each economy on the societies with live examples are presented in the course through live case studies and optimised through projects. The course is supported by the well-published economic indicators that differentiate real developed countries today in the economies of the theme here.

IE 10 Differential Diagnosis

The course focus on the implementation of Differential Diagnosis as a technique that can help in systematically identify the potential presence of opportunities where multiple alternatives are possible. The students would learn to apply differential diagnosis and take challenges and to come up with more definitive diagnostic checks. The students also would go through differential diagnosis cases and projects to see howto become better forecasters of possibilities and probabilities with more focused evidence-based approaches. Learnings from Differentiation Diagnosis and its application in Inspiration Labs are discussed and replicated by the students as part of exercises.

IE 11 Concepts of Socio-Economy Development

The course would review the socio-economic developments happening in the world and what causes their instability. The students would evaluate the challenges faces their socio-economic reality and would undertake projects to address the current social needs and future challenges.The course would focus on how to change growth into development through deep dialogue and peer to peer type of competitions that would be evaluated by the faculty of the program. The course covers the SED during both transformation periods where the socio-economic stability is high, or even in times of crisis.

Module III Elective Courses (Choose 3 Course)

IE 12 Inspiration Engineering Formulas

This course covers the background of IE formulas and how to collect the data is relevant to it. Formulas development in different measures and indicators and in different theories are discussed. Analytical research, critical thinking, comparative analysis and benchmarking in relevance to the inspiration economy formulas are covered through case studies and exercises. An open book exam would measure the application of these formulas.

IE 12B Engineering Inspiration

The process design designs make it a strong currency of inspiration. Beginning with the diagram in the diagram of the engineering work of inspiration on more stability and full of resources and inspirations that play a role in independent business models. Among the schemes for re-engineering the challenges that the attempts to migrate between traumas and the mind make, and how emotion and sense of the other are formed. These matters illustrate the human role in creating and igniting the inspiration that makes a difference in social economy projects.

IE 13 Visualisation and Business Models Enablers during Inspiration Economy Labs

This course introduces the role of visualisation, and (business models( as enablers in inspiration economy. The students would be introduced to the concept and practices of visualisation during inspiration labs are realised for their importance. Different socio-economic issues (business models) will be reviewed, and assessed to explore its outlined challenges and opportunities through visualisation which help create positive change for the current challenges or the foresighted ones.

IE 14 Philosophy of "Influencing without Power"

Introduce the concept of Influencing without power or authority. It is about the power to make or excite others without having any materialistic resources to give or contribute. The course participants would manage to practice the concept of 'influence without power' i.e. practice give and take between all the involved parties, thus enabling them to change or reinforce again others’ attitudes, opinions or behaviours (Cohen & Bradford, 2005). It is about the capacity to shape what happened and happens in order to produce a desire for action, to trigger behaviour or build others’ opinions. In Inspiration Labs we show that it is not always necessary to have authority to create an influence.

IE 15 Marketing in Inspiration based economy

The course focuses on the type of marketing strategies required, along with the methods that can be applied to marketing as part of the inspiration-based economy. The students will learn how address the use of the mechanisms of inspiration engineering as part of marketing strategies in the short or long term. The course includes a comprehensive practical introduction to the aim of marketing in overcoming challenges in social economy projects in order to improve students' ability to make inspiring and effective marketing decisions that contribute to achieving the desired impact on their target communities. The course will also include improving marketing opportunities, developing marketing strategies and stages of implementation plans in community and institutional projects. Within the course, the student will learn how to use marketing to raise competitiveness against demand and to prioritize inspired economy marketing.

IE 16 Change Management in Inspiration Economy

This course emphasises the role of change management in driving inspiration economy across all fields of activities. Students will be introduced to various Change Management situations and also would be challenged to explain the management of change and to how to use these tools to create sustainable influence or outcomes. Through case studies, the course will highlight how organisations & societies would apply change management to create IE returns.

IE 17 Social Innovation & entrepreneurship

As part of Inspiration Economy, social innovation and social entrepreneurship are very important disciplines that can be understood through reviewing all the legacy created by society activists and world leaders through their social innovation and entrepreneurship programs that inspired communities and societies. The class would be having field visits, projects and success stories sharing that are going to be evaluated throughout the course journey.

IE 17-B Entrepreneurial Strategies

The course introduces the types of entrepreneurship approaches present and expected in the near or in the distant future. The students would learn how to build strategies and plans that enable entrepreneurs to be inspiring, regardless of their financial successes. The course reviews the interconnectedness between the plans for the economy of inspiration and leadership and the impact that will build active and distinctive societies. Students will learn about the entrepreneurial activities that have inspired societies, and this will be combined with field visits, projects and sharing of success stories that will be evaluated during various pauses in the classroom.

IE 18 The art of Visualisation& Curiosity

Visualisation and Curiosity are both important keys for any Inspiration Economy project. The students would learn how to visualise and to develop their curiosity through ‘learning by doing’. The course expects all the students would explore how to design a curious life through choosing the paths of ‘what’ and ‘why’ followed by ‘how’ to design curiosity. Curiosity anatomy and psychology are discussed. The students would get acquainted with the formula of: {Curiosity + Focus = Visualisation}. Curiosity anatomy and psychology are discussed in detail to give importance of ‘why we should design and live a curious life?’. Then, ‘what is the importance of a curious life to creating a differentiate inspiration economy outcome?’ i.e. How curiosity would differ when we try to find the ‘right problem’ or ‘right solution’?

IE 19 Resilience Economy

This course incorporates both teaching and project-based approach. The students would be introduced to Resilience-based economy from inter-disciplinary perspectives. The course emphasis on the importance of enhancing tolerance within the organisations and the community attitudes, in order to manage the socio-economic crisis, or create a realized sustained development. Resilience, both as a science and art for co-existence, is also reviewed. The course facilitates on how to use the resilient mindset could optimise a socio-economic impact. The project in the course prepare practitioners, researchers and change community leaders to the practices of resilience economy and resilience engineering. Besides, targeting to create success stories that lead to resilient communities, the course also outlines the importance of relevant concepts as Self-Sufficiency and the tools that are needed more and more today to create a sustainable world.

IE 20 Youth Economy

This course shows the approach for the potentials that youth’s spirit and energy could bring today to world practices. The psychological components of youth phase, the uniqueness of their energy and spirit and they could be economically utilised are explained. The type of youth currency that might affect the socio-economic outcome is explored. The course provides a common understanding of what is happening to youth economy, in today and across different generations. The field projects would focus on how to utilise the total reverse thinking approach to improve the many policies and practices today in relevance to youth. The course finally facilitates youth economy enablers, youth economy motivators, youth economy obstacles and youth economy outcomes to prepare the students for their differentiated future capacity.

IE 21 Community Development

Students will find the course useful to explore community issues as it will expose them to essential characteristics and features of ‘relations among community members’ and between ‘inspiration economy development expert’ and ‘community structures.’ The course would focus on relations with different NGOs and community leaders, including youth and women.

The projects within the course focus on models that would create impact that leads to thecommunities development. The students are expected to explain how human relations in their project was taken care of, since Inspiration Economy focus on socio-economic development. Hence, ‘culture’, the ‘socialisation process’, ‘group dynamics’, ‘conflict management’ and behavioural science are the main constructs of the course.

The assessment of the course would depend on the capacity of the students on ‘development interventions’ that would create an outcome or a positive economic behaviour

IE21C Community Participation and Development

The course focuses on ways to stimulate community participation and inclusion, and it is summarized in social economy issues, which contributes to early and innovative exploration of community issues and a more in-depth identification of basic characteristics and features that define "relationships between community members" and an "inspiration economy development expert", and contribute to making " New "community structures." The course will focus on relationships with various NGOs. And community leaders, including youth and women.

Projects in the course focus on models that will have an impact through community participation that leads to the development of societies. Students are expected to discuss how human relations have been cared for and managed in the phases of their project, as "the economy of inspiration" focuses on social and economic development. Hence, "culture", "socialization process", "group dynamics", "conflict management" and "behavioural sciences" are the main structures of the course. The course will depend on raising students' ability to undertake “development interventions” that would create a positive economic outcome or behaviour.

IE 22 Community Mobilization Growth & Development

The course builds on the community mobilisation theory, and the practices towards inspiration economy. The sessions in the course promote both rural and urban development; including their differences and commonalities. The projects for each type of community, depending on their different realized, or untapped assets are discussed. Self-sufficiency, as part of community development solutions, would a main pillar in the course too.

The course focuses on community engagement and development, besides their level of participation, or mobilisation, which are discussed through case studies. The students would learn how to create participatory planning, or partnerships, or empowerment. All the projects would include one or more of the following: community entry, social mapping, transect walking, historical profiling, preference ranking, matrix scoring, well-being ranking, and problem tree analysis.

IE 22B Research &Community Development

The course focuses on building research practices for community development that lead to community mobilization and achieve transformation towards an inspiration-based economy. The course is based on axes that focus on the importance of promoting rural and urban development and the differences and similarities between them through field research. The course also focuses on discussing research and projects for each type of community, depending on their various perceived or untapped assets, and in a way that achieves development potentials for them or (self-sufficiency) as part of community development solutions.

IE 23 Behavioural & Development Economics

The course reviews behavioural economics and its role in developing the communities. Both structural and community problems are discussed to identify and analyses the key area where behavioural science and development economics can be applied. The course reviews the implementation of behavioural economic techniques, as nudge, in solving socio-economic challenges. The discussions and the assessment in the course would focus on developing the calibre of the students in differentiating between behavioural and inspiration economies, besides optimizing their utilization in the right place.

IE 24 Economics of Strategies & Future Foresight

This subject focus on the development of the foundations and the development of strategic management and future foresight and its influence on economics, with particular focus on the future socio-economic challenges and opportunities. The benefits and the economic factors of aforesightprogram are explored with real-examples and case studies, to show how communities and organisations could be more resilient and inspiring if the future adapted from now. Techniques to adapt to the changing environments, and building scenarios for sustainability, besides actions to disrupt the status-quo before being disrupted are exploited too.

IE 24B Future Studies and Solutions

The course introduces the concept of future studies as a methodology for the potential and preferred future. The course holds comprehensive perspectives of the world that underlie different types of futures. The workin the course stimulates the student to deal with the future through alternative solutions tools and also in shaping the desired future, which helps focus on what makes a new contribution to the world.

The course prompts the student to adopt future studies to reduce risks or the negative future, especially in social and economic situations, by seeing an alternative future that is dealt with leadership teams that deal with the big picture. So, the topic focuses on the potential near or long-term future and presenting more creative solutions to them. The student will learn how to collect data and observations about upcoming trends in the future and then how to relate them to avoid sudden disturbances in the community or in the socio-economic environment. The course works so that the student can practice future thinking to be more efficient students to discover opportunities for innovation and creativity outlets faster. To be the future pioneers, instead of letting the future design their own destiny.

IE 24C Field Project Management Strategies in an Economy of Inspiration

This course focuses on the methods of managing the field, or the live and future projects in the economy of inspiration, in a manner that ensures their consistency, sustainability, efficiency and effectiveness. The course also focuses on projects that are based on partnership. Students will also be introduced to the specifics of methodologies for managing projects of social economy issues. Students will also learn, through case studies, the methodology for projects risk management, industry sustainability in projects, and methodologies for knowledge exchange in project phases and at the end of the project.

IE 25 Sustainable Development

This course demonstrates the integration of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SGDs) that combine tangible goals for the benefit of people, societies and the planet, and the concepts of inspiration-related economies on the other hand. The course examines global transformative steps towards more sustainable and resilient pathways. The course focuses on three basic elements in the concept of sustainable development - social inclusion, economic growth, and environmental protection. In the course, students discuss how inspiring creative solutions can be extracted by focusing on the overlap of the three elements and thus contributing to the United Nations 2030 sustainable development plan. The course discusses the policy of sustainable economic development and its impact on solving problems in the changing social and environmental economy.

Module IV IE Project

IE 26 Inspiration Economy Lab (Project)

This course incorporates how inspiration labs or projects help in creating impacts and then influence the targeted community. Students will work together with the course mentor towards creating labs as part of conducting research in the pre-selected organisations. This course will provide students with an interdisciplinary framework for exploring how to incorporate projects with actual live labs. Then the course debate issues related to the inspiration labs and how to turn them into case studies that can be publicised.

Uniqueness of Program Teaching &Mode of Delivery

a) Uniqueness of MIE Program

The uniquenessof thispostgraduate focused Inspiration Economy master programis that it targets to create graduates that would lead waves of inspiration economy and engineering throughout the different socio-economies and the communities in the world, regardless of where they work and what are their disciplines. Theprogram uses ‘learning by doing’ or ‘learning by exploring’ (i.e. experiential learning) and learning by models through ensuring an ‘action-based learning’ is done during each subject to bring the best of the students’ intrinsic powers.

In the last few years, many educational leaders and pedagogical change agents started to believe that we need to change the way teachingis delivered throughboth curriculum development and delivery. Therefore, MIE program is based on multi-disciplined teaching andhybrid learning models.The classes would follow inspiration-driven techniques that would excite the mindset of the students about the opportunities inside every challenge or every problem. Most classes would be based on delivery of projects not exams. Open book exams would be the norm not the exception.

All students would have a unique spirit in investigating the problem, what is the limitations of the ‘hidden opportunities’. The teaching would be based mostly on ‘flipped class techniques’ where the students analyse and describe how they are learning and try to inspire their peers by their achievements in solving a live issue in the society or in an organisation.

The final master project would be also more driven towards action-basedresearch. All the faculty in this program would follow ‘Applied Teaching’ style, i.e. linking the subject of study with practices.

b) Proposed “Model of Delivery” of MIE Program

The delivery of each of the modulesin MIE is unique as in certain modules it would a class where the flip class would give the student to prepare and present the theoretical material and then explore the field. This is true specifically in the ‘Foundation Courses’, ‘Core Courses’ modules. While the other two modules ‘Elective Courses’ and ‘Inspiration Economy Project’ modules are designed to allow the students to explore first a problem, or an issue, then get actively engaged with the material and the class discussions. This would enhance the critical reflection ofeach MIE student with the delivered content and thus can link it to real life situations.

Each taught MIE course in the module could be delivered over two extended weeks where each class would be of 2 hours, depending on the semester of the university. Therefore, there are 28 contact hours per class. The course would be taught/delivered/facilitated usually by two facilitators and usually they come from multidisciplinary background. This would give the student the chance to develop the holistic thinking and the capacity to see solutions from different perspectives.

‘Direct independent learning’, or ‘project exploration’ would be supported by a mentor which is usually expert on the subject with experience about similar cases or problems, beside the academic advisor from the university.

Students are also required to complete a further 80 hours of directed independent learning and 80 hours of self –access study. This learning should be done during modules delivery. Students are expected to develop their own case study and publish at least one paper with the support of an expert or academic faculty.

All students would need to deliver their projects in workshop-likestyle. Students have the choice to finish the MIE program, in either One Year or maximum of 18 months. i.e. 2 to 3 academic semesters. In case of part-time mode of delivery, the students would need to finish the MIE in 3-4 academic semesters.

No student would finish the MIE without a project story that attempted to create a change in the community or the organisation. The project story would follow the complete Inspiration Economy Model creation and this story would replace the dissertation as it would carry the theme of the MIE program and its differentiation towards the students and the world. Usually, all students’ projects would be exhibited in a hall or in days dedicated for this purpose to show other students the achievements they could make too through the program in their own communities.

Final Notes Requirements for continuous improvement in the program

1-This program has been reviewed by several experts in different specialties, of different expertise and academic ranking, such as professors in several universities and colleges in the fields of engineering, medicine, and psychology.

2. It is worth noting to the reader that this program is an advanced document program, and that the final program depends on the type of university or higher education requirements, the type of college that will accredit the program, the type of agreement on the program’s objectives according to the nature of society, or the concept of developing an inspiration economy.

3. The following requirements were taken into consideration when designing the details of this MIE program: requirements for introducing a new academic program, or developing an academic program model, requirements and review criteria for academic programs, reasons for presenting an academic program for inspiration economy concept, requirements for feasibility studies from universities and scientific colleges in various countries of the world, programmed studies for programs Similar, the extent of development, and science results of comparing the new or developed academic program with other similar programs in prestigious international universities, admission requirements and certification.Also, the following were taken into consideration during the MIE program design: definition of the stakeholders(students, members of faculty, graduates, employers or beneficiaries, the academic scheduling, the educational offerings that are set in the study program, dividing hours according to the types of courses, ease of change in the programs.

4. The implementation of the program will take into account the availability of a group of academic staff and faculty members as soon as possible courses of the program, according to the academic arrangement. The program will also seek to link its outcomein comparison to the National Qualifications Framework (NQF).