Sunday, 25 May 2014

Teaching System Dynamics


I began teaching short courses on System Dynamics. 

The first System Dynamics course I taught was based on the MIT Road Maps that were developed by Jay Forrester and his team.  This was a four day course run over four weeks.

The second System Dynamics course I taught was based on John Sterman’s Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World .  This was a reading course in which chapters were assigned to students to be presented to the rest of the class.  This was a much longer course as we covered each chapter of his extensive book.

The third System Dynamics course I taught was based on Craig Kirkwood's System Dynamics Modeling: A Quick Introduction online textbook.  This course was for three days.

All three of these courses, used the Vensim Personal Learning Edition software package.

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