Implications of the ONS accounting change and looking ahead to the Post-18 review
Author: Lucy Stanfield, Strategy and External Affairs Lead at FutureLearn 2018 was a turbulent year in UK higher education policy and 2019 looks set to be the same. As we await the much anticipated Post-18 Review, leaks of which have implied that a reduction in student fees may be coming, every day seems to bring fresh…
Global education market insights: Australian International Education Conference
Australian International Education Conference October 2019 – a summary by Fiona Reay, Development Partnership Lead at FutureLearn Alongside many of our Australian partners, FutureLearn spoke at Australia’s largest international education conference #AIEC to learn more about the country’s second largest export worth A$32.4 billion – including 400,000 student enrolments onshore and 26,000 offshore studying Australian…
New research: What teachers want from online learning
To understand more about teaching professionals, earlier this year, we undertook a large scale piece of research. We received 1,410 responses from our learners across the world who have completed teaching-focused professional development courses. They came from all discipline areas (most however are teachers of English as a Foreign Language), taught in both private and…
THE Australian Universities Summit 2019: How can higher education in Australia remain forward thinking?
Author: Fiona Reay, Development Partnership Lead at FutureLearn Alongside some of our Australian partners, FutureLearn attended the inaugural Times Higher Education Australian Universities Summit at The University of Sydney to learn more about securing a sustainable future for higher education and research. Here, Fiona Reay, Partnership Development Lead, unpacks three of the top talks that…
Educator spotlight: Can mathematics be fun?
Yossi Elran from the Davidson Institute, the educational arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, certainly thinks so! He first ran his popular Maths Puzzles: Cryptarithms, Symbologies and Secret Codes course in May 2016. The course is now in its 12th run and it has since had a couple of siblings, An Introduction to Recreational…
FutureLearn on the road in China
Author: Kate Sandars, Head of Partnerships Development at FutureLearnTravelling in China with my CEO this weekend, the last thing we expected was to find FutureLearn featured in a museum. Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) held a series of events to celebrate its 70th anniversary, and Simon Nelson, Chief Executive, was there to deliver a couple of…
FutureLearn Festival of Learning June 2020
Two weeks ago, FutureLearn’s first ever virtual conference took place. FutureLearn’s Festival of Learning took place between 22-26 June 2020 and explored how education, healthcare and business will evolve in a post-COVID world, how we can all collaborate to achieve great things in the wake of upheaval, and the importance of learning together.The festival was…
What are the expectations of disabled learners when participating in a MOOC?
A short summary of the work in progress paper ‘What are the expectations of disabled learners when participating in a MOOC?’ which was presented at L@S: Fourth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale By Francisco Iniesto, PhD research student, Open World Learning, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University MOOCs are making low cost learning opportunities…
June Events
Simon Nelson, CEO, FutureLearn will keynote at the Construct: Higher Education in a Post-COVID World online event from 1-1:30pm BST on 4 June. Simon will be talking about Lessons from Lockdown: Thinking long term. Justin Cooke, Chief Content & Partnerships Officer, FutureLearn is speaking at The second EdTech industry collaboration to help schools and…
EdTechX Summit: Lessons learned for higher education during COVID-19
Author: Holly Shiflett PhD, Partnerships Director, North America I’ve always wondered when and if we’d ever reach a point when online education would be considered business as usual, rather than an extension or alternate approach. I think that time is now. The pandemic has forced us to adopt EdTech in new ways and it’s great to…
