Yesterday I talked with Scott E. Page from the University of Michigan and Santa Fe Institute and he pointed me to an amazing opportunity. He will be teaching a free online course on complex systems and modeling. The course is called Model Thinking and will start in mid to late January. Scott has a short video introduction to the course on the site.
This seems almost too good to be true. Scott is a fantastic teacher — I have been lucky to co-teach course with him at the University of Michigan and in the ICPSR summer program. He's the author of The Difference, Diversity and Complexity, and Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life. He's a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The list goes on and on. He is a super clear thinker and has an infectious enthusiasm for modeling and complex systems.
I would recommend this course to anyone who isn't on the verge of finding a cure for cancer or solving world hunger, because otherwise whatever your doing probably won't be more impactful than taking this course.