Former Dean Paul Brest is cited in this LinkedIn pulse blog for his MOOC course on philanthropy. 

With September just around the corner, students everywhere are packing their bags and moving into their dorms for the start of another academic year. And so it is with the “optional” student, too, when universities offer up the largest number of online MOOC courses to start in any month of the year.

Last September, for example, Class Central reported that 328 MOOC courses started in the month – an all-time high. With student interest in MOOCs surging – and schools using MOOCs to introduce themselves – you can bet that students will have even more options than they did a year ago. After all, the coming of fall not only signals the end of the summer; it kicks off the back-to-work seriousness of life.

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Would you like to use business tools to fix social problems? Check out Philanthropy University’s “Essentials of Nonprofit Strategy.” Taught by a former Stanford Law dean, this course provides the framework for helping managers squeeze the most impact from their precious dollars. Wharton returns with another section of “Social Entrepreneurship,” to help students develop and scale organizations that serve the neediest populations. And Philanthropy University is also teaming up with consulting powerhouse McKinsey & Co. to offer “Organizational Capacity: Assessment to Action,” designed to help entrepreneurs better shape, scale, and replicate their social enterprises.