The Future of Jobs Report – Your New Career Starts Here
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2020 has just been released and is required reading for anyone in the job market today. The report paints a vivid picture of the future of work and documents the industries which are experiencing the greatest job growth and also the areas facing contraction. 2020 has been…
14 Going Forward – 14 Courses that have Empowered Millions
This month Alison is celebrating its 14th birthday. While the last 14 years have seen the company grow enormously, one thing has stayed the same: we remain as committed to breaking down barriers in education today as we were in 2007. Every day we strive to source and publish the best and most up-to-date courses…
Blue-Collar Workers Need Not Apply (Learning new skills via e-learning)
Upskilling. Re-Skilling. Skils Development. It sounds good. Heck, who wouldn’t want to receive learning/training on skill improvement OR on learning a new skill based on their interests OR the possibility of leadership development or a job role tied to a set of specific skills. Go to nearly any learning system on the market who offers…
Expect 2 C in Learning Systems 2021
Some of you are thinking, why is he using “2” and “C” as the title of the piece? Well, why not? I mean, when you consider that “communities” in learning systems are roaring back (although in all honesty, they never left), as though it is some whiz and wow thing, having a “2” to represent…
Hazel Kendrick: “Alison courses help me to improve my teaching skills.”
Hazel Kendrick is a lecturer in Business Management in South Africa and finds that Alison’s online courses allow her to stay up to date with her teaching methods. As well as being an Alison learner, Hazel also teaches online and recommends Alison courses to her students. “My name is Hazel Kendrick. I am a lecturer…
Course Spotlight: How to Teach Online
At FutureLearn, we are proud to partner with educators across the globe, and as such, we’ve been keenly focused on what we can do to best support those teachers facing a significant challenge to move their face-to-face courses online and minimise disruption for their students.As part of this, we built a course specifically for teachers…
Meet 7 year old Ehan – Alison graduate and future NASA engineer
Like many schoolchildren around the world, seven year old Ehan Rattani has spent 2020 learning from home. However, Ehan has gone above and beyond his school curriculum and has spent lockdown learning coding with Alison. Ehan is one of our youngest ever graduates and plans on putting his newfound knowledge to good use. Hi Ehan,…
Educator spotlight: Using Open Educational Resources to create learning ‘For Everybody’
This month we travel to the US and one of its top public universities, the University of Michigan. By partnering with FutureLearn, Michigan furthers its commitment to shaping the future of learning which perfectly aligns with our vision of transforming access to education. Its first three courses on Python, Sleep Deprivation and Successful Negotiation started…
The future for education technology in schools: reflections on the Westminster Education Forum policy conference
Author: Isabel Drury, Partnership ManagerAccording to UNESCO, more than 1.5 billion students and 63 million primary and secondary teachers have been affected by the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. Meanwhile in the UK, the Office for the Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast that the education sector would be the hardest hit sector by the…
Knowledge Acquisition? Skill Develop? Go COP
Routines. We all have them. It may be as simple as drinking coffee each morning, watching the news. Perhaps, it is having tea, reading the latest news on the Internet or in the newspaper. We can’t seem to break this routine. We may try to mix it up, and there are days where we can’t…
