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…
The rise of the digital twin
Author: Charles McIntyre, Chairman and co-Founder of IBIS Capital and EdTechX Replicating the real world to understand better how to solve a problem, was most dramatically played out in the rescue of Apollo 13. In 1970, the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank failed two days into the mission. Houston had to find a…
April Events
April past events: On 22 April, Justin Cooke, Chief Content & Partnerships Officer, FutureLearn spoke on a panel, How do we move pedagogy online? at the Jisc / Emerge Higher Education Horizon Group virtual event. The event focused on assessment and other opportunities and challenges that have arisen due to COVID-19. You can watch the…
February’s industry round-ups
Opinion: Coronavirus quarantine could spark an online learning boomThe Conversation, 23rd February The spread of the coronavirus disease known as COVID-19 is a public health emergency with economic and social ramifications in China and across the world. While the impacts on business are well documented, education is also facing the largest disruption in recent memory. Institutions…
Real world solutions for the digital skills gap
Author: Dr Rachid Hourizi, Director of the Institute of Coding The Institute of Coding (IoC) was created to respond to the UK’s digital skills gap and since our launch in 2018, we have grown into a large national consortium of educators, employers and outreach groups.The demand for people to fill roles within the digital technology sector…
EDUCAUSE 2019: What are students really looking for from higher education?
Author: Holly Shiflett, Director, North American Partnerships at FutureLearn The annual EDUCAUSE conference was held in October in Chicago, Illinois. As many of you know, this event is one of the big IT events in the US and covers a vast array of different themes. For me, a key benefit of EDUCAUSE is having a…
Yes! Digital Learners are Emotional – Insights from the Irish 101 MOOC
Elaine Beirne, a researcher in The Ideas Lab at the National Institute of Digital Learning (NIDL) in DCU, and inaugural OLC Emerging Scholar, is researching the emotions of beginner language learners in Irish language MOOCs. Originally appeared on NIDL’s blog. Many people believe that online learning can be a lonely journey for a learner and…
What do MOOC learners like and dislike?
A short blogpost on the subject of what MOOC learners like and dislike, originally published on Evalu-ate Written by Kerrie Douglas, Assistant Professor and Gaurav Nanda, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Purdue University Massive open online course (MOOC) learners vary widely in background and learning objectives. MOOCs are still trying to understand their learners better and provide…
Global education market insights: TEQSA Conference
Learning Designer, Monty King, attended the Tertiary Education Quality Standards Association (TEQSA) Australia conference in Melbourne last month, and gave a ‘Lightning Talk’ presentation on ‘The Trends Impacting Universities Today and the Role for Collaboration’ citing a number of our partnerships with education providers.The conference theme was ‘Partnerships Driving Quality’, which provided an opportunity to…
Who are our Learners? Part 4: The ‘Leisure’ archetypes
A research-based insight into FutureLearners. Part 4: The ‘Leisure’ archetypes. By Tracey Walker, User Experience Researcher at FutureLearn In part one, Tracey explained how the research and data team at FutureLearn set out to understand more about our learners. You can read more about this in Part 1: what we did and why. In part…
