By Rich Barlow, Boston University
Walter Fluker’s online course covers saints and sinners both. Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi, Idi Amin, Richard Nixon: you won’t find this eclectic group on many course syllabi, but they share one commonality. They are all examples of leadership—some moral giants, some moral pipsqueaks. These figures from history are among the case studies in the first MOOC (massive open online course) offered by the School of Education and the School of Theology. Ethical Leadership: Character, Civility, and Community launched last week and runs for eight weeks under the instruction of Walter Fluker, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Professor of Ethical Leadership at STH. Any students who get a grade of 60 or higher in the course may take a separate, six-week class online and receive graduate credit from BU. The class syllabus reads: “This course will help you get deeper into the videos and other course content as you prepare to bring your ethical leadership work to your area of ultimate concern.”
http://www.bu.edu/today/2016/walter-fluker-ethical-leadership-mooc/
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