EDUCATION ON THE INTERNET

One of the amazing opportunities created by the Internet is the ability to take college courses on line. Many of the students at traditional colleges show no improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing. However, students on line seem to be motivated to gain these things from the courses available to them on their computers. An organization called Coursera offers free courses at prestigious universities all over the world. I recently enrolled in Introduction to Philosophy at THE UNIVERSTY of EDENBURGH. I have a lifelong interest in the subject of philosophy and I am excited about this course.

The course will introduce me to some of the most important areas of research in contemporary philosophy. Each week a different philosopher will talk me through some of the most important questions in their area of expertise. We’ll begin by trying to understand what philosophy is__what are its characteristic aims and methods, and how does it differ from other subjects? Then we’ll spend the rest of the course gaining an introductory overview of several different areas of philosophy: Epistemology, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of mind, Moral Philosophy, and Metaphysics. Would you like to join me? If so, go to: https://www.coursera.org/course/introphil