Modern Monetary Theory: Economics for the 21st Century – MOOC – now available via MMTed.org

I am travelling all day tomorrow so I am bringing forward the normal blog post to today. I am pleased to announce that from today the MMT MOOC which we ran through the University of Newcastle’s edX facility over the last few years is now available through MMTed on an on-going basis. Read on to get the full details and access.

Modern Monetary Theory: Economics for the 21st Century – MOOC

I am pleased to announce that from today the MMT MOOC which we ran through the University of Newcastle’s edX facility is now available through MMTed.

The free, 4-week course offered a range of learning modes – videos, written materials, interviews with many MMT people, and more.

It was designed for the beginner to equip the participant with a broad array of information designed to develop economic literacy.

The MMTed MOOC was offered several times under the University of Newcastle’s edX licence.

The University has now kindly allowed MMTed (given that I was the course developer) to make the resources available under licensing conditions shown below, now that they have moved away from offering MOOCs themselves.

I am particularly grateful to Andrew and Paul who put in a lot of work to help shift the media resources over from the University archives and for the original work that the Educational Development team did with me in producing the media resources.

It has taken a lot of work to rearrange the teaching materials within our own portal and some of the edX functionality is not offered here because we simply do not have the resources available to build and manage the full edX experience (for example, manage discussion boards and secure login and registration procedures).

But all the course materials are now available on an on-going basis for self-paced learning.

No registration is required and no records are kept of usage by MMTed.

The course material is offered free of charge and there are no academic awards given by MMTed upon completion.

The 4-week structure of the course has been retained and contains sequentially more advanced work as you progress.

Clicking on a particular Week will take you to that Week’s Teaching Materials.

For example, for Week 1:

Access the Program

You can access the teaching program by following this link – Modern Monetary Theory: Economics for the 21st Century.

I urge you to undertake the course sequentially.

Licensing

© 2024 The University of Newcastle. Unless otherwise indicated, the content of the videos is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence which permits reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes providing appropriate credit is given to the original work. You may not distribute adaptations / derivative works without permission from the University. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0.

The MMT Game Show

Here is some fun we had developing the materials for the MOOC.

This segment is encountered in Week 2 of the Course.

I rang Dr Louisa Connors up at work one lunchtime while we were filming the MOOC materials over the other side of the campus at the University of Newcastle.

I asked her if she could come over and help me film this ‘game show’.

She agreed not really knowing what was being planned.

There were no scripts and the props and dialogue emerged as we went although I scribbled a few notes for Louisa before we began which she abandoned soon after!

But we all had fun doing it.

Mostly first takes of each scene.

We are awaiting offers from the large networks (-:

Book Event this week – Melbourne, September 12, 2024

Readings Bookshop in Melbourne is hosting an event – Bill Mitchell with Alan Kohler – which will be held at the Hawthorn Shop (687 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122) on Thursday, September 12, starting at 18:30.

I will be there with ABC Finance personality Alan Kohler to discuss my new book (co-authored by Warren Mosler) – Modern Monetary Theory: Bill and Warren’s Excellent Adventure.

Copies of the book will be available at discount prices and my pen might come out if you want it signed.

Readings have increased the capacity for the event, after their usual audience size was oversubscribed.

The event is free but you need to book a ticket.

You can find more details and booking information – HERE.

I hope to see the Melbourne crew on Thursday.

Music – Slave Driver

This is what I have been listening to while working this morning.

This film was made in October 1973, when – Bob Marley and the Wailers – recorded a concert at the Capitol Studios in Hollywood.

The song – Slave Driver – was originally released on their 1973 album – Catch a Fire – which was their fifth studio album and remains their best (in my view).

Both – Peter Tosh – and – Bunny Wailer – were still working with – Bob Marley – at this stage.

Those three were supported by the Barrett brothers, Rita Marley and Marcia Griffiths on the album (among others).

Defiance.

That is enough for today!

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