The Indian School of Business (ISB) is set to make its foray into the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) world with a course on “A Life of Happiness and Fulfilment.”

The course which will be offered on Coursera, the world’s largest open online education provider, and taught by Professor Raj Raghunathan, Visiting Professor of Marketing at the ISB and Professor of Marketing at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas, Austin.

The course content is based on emerging scientific research, particularly from an area called ‘positive psychology.’ It focuses on how prioritising happiness leads to success in work and life.

The six-week-long self-paced course commences on June 15, 2015, and will be accessible to anyone with Internet access for free. Over 20,000 students from 70 countries have already registered and that number expected to double in the coming weeks.

Ajit Rangnekar, Dean, ISB, said, “The course is a step forward in ISB’s mission to leverage technology and make its vast knowledge resources accessible to a larger audience globally.”

With campuses at Mohali and Hyderabad, ISB became the first Indian partner-school for Coursera when the two signed a MoU earlier this year to offer courses in the online space.

Rick Levin, Coursera’s CEO, said, “We believe that ISB’s first course will be quite popular, because similar courses related to the psychology of wellbeing are among the highest enrolled on our platform. ISB’s happiness course will be particularly appealing to the working professionals, old and young, who flock to Coursera to learn new skills for improving their careers.”

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