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May 20, 2014

Can Happiness Become The World’s Most Popular Course?

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by Giovanni Rodriguez, Forbes

“The Science of Happiness” — a MOOC (massive open online course) sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) — will launch in September of this year. And though they announced the course only recently, it has already generated close to 40,000 registrations, according to UC Berkeley’s Professor Dacher Keltner. They’re on track to reach more than 100,000 people, when the first class bell rings. But given the momentum they’ve gained in such a short amount of time, his projection seems modest. A number of MOOCs have reached even bigger audiences (never mind the dropout rates; the topic of another story I am writing). And if there were a competition, “The Science of Happiness” might have an unfair advantage.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/giovannirodriguez/2014/05/13/happiness-the-most-popular-course-in-the-world/

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