Making FutureLearn

Learn more with Unlimited We know how busy life can be, but we also know you can achieve anything with the right flexibility. That’s why we’ve created Unlimited – a new way of learning. Unlimited gives you access to hundreds of short courses and the freedom to complete them at your own pace over a…

Buy an upgrade or paid course using PayPal Previously, you could only buy an upgrade or paid course with a credit or debit card. In 2017, we introduced the ability to pay in US Dollars, Euros and Australian Dollars as well as British Pounds – but this still meant paying by card. After a lot…

Submit an assignment and get feedback from your tutor You can now submit assignments for tutor feedback and grading. Tutor marked assignments are a step in a course which will allow you to submit a written response to a question set by the course provider. One of the educators can then give you feedback either…

In honour of International Women’s Day 2017, in this post we share five women who inspire us to keep learning, and keep helping others to learn. 1. Katherine Johnson The Apollo 11 flight to the moon wouldn’t have got very far without Katherine Johnson, an African-American physicist and mathematician who worked at NASA in the…

In this post we share some exciting news: 5 universities from the United States are going to be offering courses on FutureLearn. We’re happy to announce that we’ve got not one, not two, not three, not four, but five US universities joining FutureLearn! American University, Colorado State University, Penn State University, Purdue University and UVA…

Exciting news – we’re going to be sharing more about life at FutureLearn, and how we build FutureLearn over on our Medium page.  From now on we’ll stick to just letting you know about the really important FutureLearn developments on this blog. But if you want to know even more about FutureLearn, you can find…

Making a FutureLearn course is a fun, exciting and sometimes complicated process. To make it a bit simpler I’m going to use an old familiar metaphor: the recipe. Let’s start by taking a look at what we’re cooking up today: one course. More specifically, one course that: Tells stories – every course should tell a…

In this post, find out about the exciting things we’ve been up to recently at FutureLearn, including new features, new partnerships and new courses.   Customize your interests You can now customize your interests, to tell us what subjects you’re interested in and see suggested courses on your interests page. Here’s how it works:     Find…

In this post we share some of what our CEO Simon Nelson said about higher education and the digital world, when he spoke at SXSWedu in Texas. SXSWedu is an annual conference and festival which celebrates innovation in learning. The event is part of the South by Southwest family of conferences and festivals and, now…

In this post Tessa Cooper, Senior Product Manager at FutureLearn, shares her experiences of returning to work after Maternity Leave and how FutureLearn helped her to settle back in. Tess and her new baby at FutureLearn. Last year became the first year that anyone at FutureLearn went on Maternity Leave. In fact three of us…