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Michael Joseph Sandel [3] (/ s æ n ˈ d ɛ l /; born March 5, 1953) is an American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where his course Justice was the university's first course to be made freely available online and on television.
SWAYAM has accumulated 203 partnering institutes, 2,748 completed courses, 12,541,992 student enrollments, 915,538 exam registrations, and 654,664 successful certificates. [ 7 ] SWAYAM (meaning 'Self' in Sanskrit ) [ 8 ] is an acronym that stands for "Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds" [ 9 ]
The work was written to accompany Sandel's "Justice" course at Harvard University, which he has taught for more than thirty years and which has been offered online and in various TV summary versions. There is also an accompanying sourcebook of readings: Justice: A Reader .
The time and effort required from participants may exceed what students are willing to commit to a free online course. Once the course is released, content will be reshaped and reinterpreted by the massive student body, making the course trajectory difficult for instructors to control. Participants must self-regulate and set their own goals.
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Michael J. Sandel, 1998, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521567416. Sterling Harwood, 1996, Against MacIntyre's Relativistic Communitarianism , in Sterling Harwood, ed., Business as Ethical and Business as Usual, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company), Chapter 3, ISBN 0-534-54251-4 and ISBN ...
2012-13 (Utah): Michael J. Sandel—"The Moral Economy of Speculation: Gambling, Finance, and the Common Good" 2012-13 (Stanford): William Bowen—"I. Costs and Productivity in Higher Education" and "II. Prospects for an Online Fix: Can We Harness Technology in the Service of our Aspirations?"
GCFLearnFree.org was created in July 2000 by Goodwill Community Foundation Inc president Dennis McLain as an online training program with both English and Spanish language lessons. [2] The program was funded through revenue generated from the value of donated items to Goodwill Community Foundation (GCF).