Making FutureLearn

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…

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 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…

Explore your program pages more easily We’ve updated the navigation of our program pages by moving the navigation tabs higher up the page, above the course carousel. This makes the tabs easier to find and explore. We’ve also changed the About tab name to Learning, so you can more easily identify where to access your…

Find the right course for you with topic pages To help you find the right course, we’ve introduced dedicated pages where you can find all the courses, programs and degrees we offer on a specific topic in one place. On some of these pages you’ll also find thoughts from previous learners, and handy career advice…

Bookmark interesting comments to come back to later If you see a comment you’d like to find again later, click the bookmark icon. You’ll then be able to find it again by selecting ‘Show: bookmarked’ in the comment filters, or in the bookmarked section of your activity feed. Don’t worry, bookmarks are secret – nobody…

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…

From today, we’re making some changes to the way FutureLearn courses work. Now you’ll be able to upgrade your courses, giving you a set of benefits, instead of only being able to buy a Certificate when you finish a course. You can now upgrade your courses On FutureLearn courses starting from 6 March 2017, you…

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…