Coursera

Thanks to Maurice Coleman and his T is for Training Podcast on Friday, I learned about Coursera (www.coursera.org) which is a catalog of free MOOCs (massively open online courses).

These are several-week-long, asynchronous courses taught by professors at universities all across the world – mostly U.S. but there are several international universities represented.

I spent some time browsing around in their catalog and found some courses that might be of interest to those of us in library-land:

• Creativity, Innovation, and Change (Penn State Univ)
• Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence (Case Western Reserve Univ)
• Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information (UNC Chapel Hill)
• Design Thinking for Business Innovation (Univ. of VA)

And my favorite, A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior