I do teach a course on the Economics of Future Technology at Smith College. I would be willing to explore this idea with people at Coursera if you want to put them in touch with me.
It's worth thinking about the risks and benefits of exposing futurist ideas to a larger audience that may not be especially intelligent or rational.
What are your thoughts on this? One argument line is the curious kids are going to learn 'bout birds and bees one way or another, better it be from a good source than youtube.
In before someone complains about the font and gets 5 upvotes for it.
Rutgers was planning to offer a "Future of Humankind" course via Coursera, but I received this announcement today:
"Hello Future of Humankind registrants,
The Future of Humankind Course Staff"
Average Coursera offerings are in tens of thousands, and this might be a chance to make a large impact. Proper contacts with Rutgers could be easily established, I also have some direct contacts at Coursera.
(I'm specifically thinking about you http://lesswrong.com/user/James_Miller)