Course spotlight: women’s health after motherhood
After giving birth, women can struggle to access reliable resources and trustworthy information regarding their own health. There can be confusion surrounding what is and what isn’t normal after childbirth and many mothers unnecessarily suffer in silence. Attempting to meet the needs of these women, Trinity College Dublin produced the course Women’s Health After Motherhood on…
January’s industry round-up
The Report: higher education ‘on-demand’Ed Technology, 29 January This opinion piece argues that traditional modes of teaching are fast becoming outdated, and if university evolved into an on-demand service, like Netflix, it would promote an education that truly knows no borders. This claim is backed up by statistics from the Unite Students Insight Report 2019,…
Using a mentor model to enhance learner experience
A short summary of the research paper ‘Genomic Education at Scale: The Benefits of Massive Open Online Courses for the Healthcare Workforce’, which appeared in Frontiers in Genetics in November 2019.Written by Dr Ed Miller, Dr Michelle Bishop and Amelia McPherson‘Whole Genome Sequencing: Decoding the Language of Life and Health’ was launched on FutureLearn in 2016…
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…
Course spotlight: health after motherhood
After giving birth, women can struggle to access reliable resources and trustworthy information regarding their own health. There can be confusion surrounding what is and what isn’t normal after childbirth and many mothers unnecessarily suffer in silence. Attempting to meet the needs of these women, Trinity College Dublin produced the course Women’s Health After Motherhood on…
Musings from BETT 2020: what’s in it for the higher education sector?
Author: Tom Rees-Davies, Educational Partnerships at FutureLearnWhat do robotic puppies, a double decker bus, and renowned Ted Talker Sugata Mitra all have in common? In the absence of an actual punchline, you may be unsurprised to hear that they were all star attractions at the recent BETT 2020 exhibition (‘star’ doing a lot of work on…
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…
Educator spotlight: raising awareness of everyday ethics in care
The University of Surrey recently joined FutureLearn and this January they launched their first two MOOCs, on Communicating with Diverse Audiences and Ethical Decision-Making in Care. Both courses previously ran as private courses for small cohorts of invited learners and we reached out to Ann Gallagher, Professor of Ethics and Care and lead educator on the Ethical Decision-Making in Care course, to ask…
Insights from the FutureLearn APAC Partners’ Forum
Author: Nigel Smith, MD of Courses and Learning at FutureLearnDuring the last week of November, FutureLearn held its annual Asia-Pacific Partners’ Forum at The University of Melbourne in Australia. Melbourne has become an increasingly important city for us. Not only do we partner with four universities there but it’s also home to our co-owners SEEK who…
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…
