Just signed up for the following course on Coursera (though it already started):

Health Policy and the Affordable Care Act

Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD

This course will explore the many problems of the American health care system and discuss the specific ways that the Affordable Care Act will impact access, quality, costs, as well as medical innovation.

https://www.coursera.org/course/healthpolicy

Think Again: How to Reason and Argue

Course Syllabus

• Week Thirteen: How to Change the Subject when You're Losing an Argument

(Ok I made that last week up)

Thanks for the links...

Not really surprising that Gamification and Game Theory are the most popular Business and Economics offerings.

Since I was already planning to take some finance courses, I checked out Introduction to Finance.  I do not think the lecturer really gets the concept of online learning.  He requires watching two hour lectures of him talking each week.  I had trouble staying awake for lectures that long when I was 20.  My chances now are closer to none than slim.

Some news about MIT and Harvard's online learning initiatives:

Lessons learned from MITx’s prototype course - MIT News Office:

As the team behind MIT’s ambitious online learning program gears up to introduce new courses in the fall, it takes stock of its initial experiences.

 

 almost 155,000 people registered for 6.002x. Of those, roughly 23,000 tried the first problem set, 9,000 passed the midterm, and 7,157 passed the course as a whole.

While the rate of attrition may seem high, Anant Agarwal, the president of edX and a professor of computer science and engineering at MIT, points out, “if you look at the number in absolute terms, it’s as many students as might take the course in 40 years at MIT.”

Agarwal also believes that the rate of completion will increase as more courses are added to the edX catalog. “In some sense, this course popped up out of nowhere,” he says. “It requires a background in physics, a background in calculus, a background in differential equations. Over time, edX will have courses on each of those three prerequisites, and we can point students to those courses if they don’t have the background.”

One thing edX will not do in order to boost the rate of success, Agarwal says, is make courses easier. “We will not water down the courses,” he says. “They will continue to be MIT-hard or Harvard-hard.”

Ultimately, students from more than 160 countries registered for 6.002x. The majority of the traffic on the MITx site came from the United States, India and the United Kingdom, but the country that followed these top three was something of a surprise: Colombia. Rounding out the top 10 were Spain, Pakistan, Canada, Brazil, Greece and Mexico.