Michael Sandel’s Famous Harvard Course on Justice Now Available as a MOOC: Register Today

Back in 2009, Har­vard polit­i­cal philoso­pher Michael Sandel made his course, Jus­tice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, avail­able on the web for free (YouTube — iTunes — Web). Sud­den­ly life­long learn­ers around the world had access to a pop­u­lar course enjoyed by more than 14,000 Har­vard stu­dents over 30 years. Start­ing on March 12, 2013, Sandel plans to offer Jus­tice as a free course through edX, the provider of MOOCs (or Mas­sive Open Online Cours­es) cre­at­ed by Har­vard and MIT. And here’s one thing you can guar­an­tee: In a sin­gle offer­ing, Sandel will bring his course to more stu­dents world­wide than he did through his decades teach­ing at Har­vard.

FYI: edX announced oth­er new spring cours­es. All will be added to our col­lec­tion of Free Online Cer­tifi­cate Cours­es & MOOCs from Great Uni­ver­si­ties. They include:

• The Chal­lenges of Glob­al Pover­ty — liv­ing on under $1 a day, exam­in­ing and over­com­ing pover­ty traps.
• Jus­tice — a glob­al dia­logue about the big moral and civic ques­tions of our time.
• The Ancient Greek Hero — amaz­ing sto­ries, poet­ry and songs from more than two mil­len­nia ago (intro lev­el).
• Copy­right — who “owns” ideas in the US and beyond – you’ll find out in this pilot course (lim­it­ed to 500 stu­dents).
• Human Health and Glob­al Envi­ron­men­tal Change — cli­mate change, bio­di­ver­si­ty loss and their effect on bil­lions of peo­ple.
• Intro­duc­tion to Sta­tis­tics — an amaz­ing, intro­duc­to­ry course on the fun­da­men­tals and the sci­ence of draw­ing con­clu­sions from data.
• Quan­tum Mechan­ics and Quan­tum Com­pu­ta­tion — a remark­able intro course for stu­dents of all types.