Harvard University (yes, that Harvard) have launched a website allowing anyone in the world free access to one of their most popular courses, Justice with Professor Michael Sandel. Classes, along with required reading and discussion notes for both beginner and advanced students, are posted every week for 12 weeks. Three classes have been posted so far.
Justice is a philosophy/ethics course aiming to challenge students with "with difficult moral dilemmas and asks our opinion about the right thing to do. He then asks us to examine our answers in the light of new scenarios... This course also addresses the hot topics of our day—affirmative action, same-sex marriage, patriotism and rights—and Sandel shows us that we can revisit familiar controversies with a fresh perspective."
I am totally going to "take" this course. If you're interested, I'll post class synopses here and my thoughts on the issues brought up. Better yet, take it with me!
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Very interesting. But apart from watching the (weekly?) videos, how do you "join" the course? I'm really up for it.
That's really cool!
u know.. MIT have also done a similar thing years ago, they made an open courseware
http://ocw.mit.edu/
it includes over 1200 resources for courses taught at different MIT schools.. from Human Resources to Particle Physics...
way to go...
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