U. Va. opens registration at no cost on-line categories – Richmond Times Dispatch

U. Va. opens registration at no cost on-line categories – Richmond Times Dispatch  - CHARLOTTESVILLE — Registration is open to the first of 11 totally free of charge on-line courses the University of Virginia can supply in 2012.

The non-credit courses referred to as MOOCs, for large open on-line courses, are offered via a partnership along with Coursera. They embrace business and education courses, along with politics professor Larry Sabato training program on John F. Kennedy.

Among new courses is English professor Bruce Holsinger Plagues, Witches and War : The Worlds of Historical Fiction, which should start Oct. 15 and it is a version from the Historical Fictions seminar he teaches at U. Va.

Holsinger is that the author of A Burnable Book, a historical novel established in London in 1385, scheduled to become revealed by HarperCollins early next year.

The training program can function recorded discussions along with modern writers of historical fiction, as well as Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, and also the chance to follow-up using the novelists in on-line forums and chats.

A lot of info is accessible at www. coursera. org. Here is that the routine for U. Va. courses :

September

Foundations of Business Strategy, Michael Lenox (Darden Faculty of Business), six-week training program beginning Sept. 2

New Designs of Business in Society, R. Edward Freeman (Darden Faculty of Business), five-week training program beginning Sept. 2

October

Plagues, Witches and War : The Worlds of Historical Fiction,  Bruce Holsinger (Department of English), eight-week training program beginning Oct. 15.

Effective Classroom Interactions,  Bridget Hamre, Grace W. Funk, Allison P. Leach and Kathy Neesen (Curry Faculty of Education), four-week training program, begin day TBD

The Kennedy Half-Century, Larry Sabato (U. Va. Center for Politics), four-week training program beginning Oct. 21

November

Style Thinking for Business Innovation, Jeanne Liedtka (Darden Faculty of Business), five-week training program beginning Nov. 5

January

Grow to Greatness, Component 1,  Ed Hess (Darden Faculty of Business), five-week training program beginning Jan. 20

The Modern World, Philip Zelikow (Department of History), 15-week training program, begin day TBD

Coming inside the spring

Grow to Greatness, Component 2, Ed Hess (Darden Faculty of Business), four-week training program, begin day TBD

Buddhist Meditation, David Germano (Department of Spiritual Studies), begin day TBD

Inside the works :

Age of Jefferson,  Peter Onuf (Virginia Foundation to the Humanities)