University of Iowa offers free online course on health care reform

In what may be a one-of-a-kind move, the University of Iowa College of Law is offering all comers the opportunity to attend a free online 14-week course on the nation’s new health care reform law. Already, nearly 500 people have reportedly expressed an interest in attending.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~ibl/HealthLawColloquium.shtml

The class will be broadcast on Thursday afternoons forthose who wish to participate in live sessions of the distance educationcourse and can be seen on video thereafter. A web page at the Iowa Innovation, Business and Law Center provides links to the sessions and the class. “This is a very important piece of legislation, so we thought we would  experiment with distance learning,” professor Sheldon Kurtz, who developed the course, tells the National Law Journal. “We believe we have an outreach mission that involves informing the public about policy issues.”