System Dynamics and Feedback Modeling

About this course

Build system dynamics models with stocks, flows, and feedback loops for policy analysis. Model supply chains, epidemics, and organizational dynamics using causal loop diagrams and Vensim/Stella software.

• 20 lessons
• 2 h
• advanced

What you'll learn

• Define system dynamics and its core principles
• Explain the importance of feedback in dynamic systems
• Identify real-world applications in supply chains, epidemics, and organizations
• Create causal loop diagrams for simple systems
• Differentiate between reinforcing and balancing loops
• Interpret loop polarity and dominance

Finishing the course

• 80 knowledge-check questions along the way, so you know the ideas stuck before you move on.
• Watching is free and needs no account. Sign in to save your progress. Pass each lesson's quiz (60%+) to earn the certificate. Each certificate has its own public verification link to share, marked quiz-verified.

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