The online course I enrolled in is called “Managing Happiness” and is offered by HarvardX. It aims to help us manage and understand happiness. We often ask each other how we’re doing or how our day was, but what we’re really after is to know whether we’re happy or satisfied with what we did. Being happy means being in control of our own lives, and this course teaches us how to achieve that. By engaging in daily journaling, we’ll learn to understand and manage our happiness, and take charge of our lives.
Hi Alice,
This sounds like a great choice for an audit. As I mentioned on Shelly’s post – it is always interesting to see how the MOOC providers build courses for scale (lots of learners) and how they plan for engagement. Do the courses have any active facilitation, or is most of the content delivered through videos/lecturs with self-assessed activities? How does that affect motivation and/or completion rates? In your post you talk about why you are interested in the content – but as an online teacher what aspects of the pedagogical design are you interested in seeing in action? Thanks, Michelle