For the last week and a half, I've been participating in a MOOC focused on Character Education and Virtue Ethics --
What Is Character? Virtue Ethics In Education, developed by the University of Birmingham (specifically, by the Jubilee Center for Character and Virtues), and hosted on the FutureLearn Platform. I'd been looking forward to this relatively short course (only 2 weeks) for some time -- it's enjoyable from time to time to slip back into the role of student rather than professor, and let someone else do the course design and teaching.
I've been idly kicking around the idea of reviewing virtue-, character-, and more general ethics-focused books, courses, and other resources on this blog, and the invitation to reflect upon the course built in near the end of it presented me with an occasion to to precisely that. So, here it goes. Overall, I'd award it a solid
B- , but that grade is partly due to the fact that it's free of charge. I'd recommend taking it to
most people interested in the subject-matters covered.
