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Coursera: A Globalized World: Interconnection and Education
This guest post is written by Javier Solana, professor at ESADE Business and Law School introducing the course “Geopolitics and Global Governance: Risks and Opportunities”. The citizens of today’s world are deeply interconnected. The incredible advances in communications—especially through the internet—have brought us all closer to one another. Platforms like Coursera have given people of myriad backgrounds access to content developed by universities the world over—places they may never have visited in person. Initiatives like these are fantastic: access to high-quality education is essential for the free development of individuals and societies. These technological advances provide us with important benefits, but they also multiply our responsibilities. Being connected makes us interdependent: the consequences of our actions become broader in scope. We must therefore develop a solid understanding of the world we live in, the people we intera…