SED and STH Announce Ethical Leadership MOOC with Walter Fluker
The Center for Character and Social Responsibility (CCSR) is proud to announce the first BUx Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from Boston University School of Education (SED) and Boston University School of Theology (STH): Ethical Leadership: Character, Civility and Community. The course is taught by Walter E. Fluker, Martin Luther King, Jr. professor of ethical leadership at STH & the Graduate Division of Religious Studies, CAS.
This course will provide theoretical and practical approaches to the development of character, civility and community for leaders and emerging leaders in education, business, nonprofit, academic, religious, and other professions. The course examines the personal, public and spiritual dimensions of leadership within the context that Fluker calls “the intersection of lifeworlds and systems”; and outlines principles and practices of ethical leadership from a diverse field of leadership theories. Fluker’s work grounds leadership in story, the appropriation of one’s personal narrative within social and historical contexts, as a basis for personal and social transformation. A major outcome of the course is an Ethical Leadership Toolkit which will include several heuristic aids: an Ethical Leadership Model™, a Model for Ethical Decision-Making, practical exercises that are part of life-long leadership development (Remembering, Retelling and Reliving Our Stories and Looking, Listening and Learning); and a variety of aesthetic and literary sources, case studies, journaling and meditative practices.
Faculty, deans, and administrators from throughout Boston University will present their vision for ethical leadership and the role of higher education. These include: President Robert Brown, Provost Jean Morrison, Deans Hardin Coleman (SED), Mary Elizabeth Moore (STH), Ann Cudd (CAS), Kenn Elmore (Dean of Students), and Kenneth Freeman (Questrom School of Business), and Adil Najam (Pardee School of Global Studies).
The MOOC will also present video interviews from leadership theorists as well as prominent leaders in the areas of education, business, government and global citizenship such as: Congressman John Lewis; Ambassador Andrew Young; Dr. Jochen Fried (Salzburg Global Seminar); Dr. Walter Massey, (President, School of the Art Institute of Chicago); Chandra Taylor-Smith (Vice President, Community Conservation and Education, National Audubon Society); Nixon biographer Evan Thomas; Harvard University Business, Kennedy and Education School Professors Max Bazerman, Howard Gardner, Bill George, David Gergen, Ronald Heifetz and Barbara Kellerman.
After passing the MOOC there will be an option for BU and non-BU students to take an additional six week course in order to earn graduate credits from Boston University. If you are interested in this credit bearing course offering please contact Robin Masi for more information.
Professor Fluker is also the editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Initiative for the Development of Ethical Leadership (MLK-IDEAL). This MOOC is co-sponsored with the B.U. School of Theology. The course is being funded by and developed with BU’s Digital Learning Initiative (DLI). The course will be offered through BUx will begin on May 24, 2016.
The Ethical Leadership MOOC is now available for registration at:
https://www.edx.org/course/ethical-leadership-character-civility-bux-leadershipx
For further information on the MOOC please contact Jonathan Lazzara (BU SED); or Robin Masi, Ethical Leadership Course Coordinator and Teaching Faculty.