I heard about this Complexity Explorer course via Stephen Downes and have decided to enrol.
Our experience always involves a lot of complexity which we typically manage by isolating just a few quantities of interest which are related by compactly expressible relationships. I am curious to see whether “complexity theory” really proposes general methods for dealing with cases where this is not possible – or whether it just consists of introducing some particular new ways of extracting simplified models from more complex ones.