Matching Skills to the World’s Most Popular Jobs
Leading social learning platform FutureLearn releases a new interactive tool, highlighting the world’s most in-demand jobs, and the skills you will need to apply for them. With the jobs market …
Author: Ellie Bird
Founders Factory launch new online course to boost skills needed to build the next generation of VC-backable businesses
FutureLearn, the UK’s leading social learning platform, and Founders Factory, a world-leading startup studio and accelerator programme, today announce the launch of a new online course, “Venture Design: How to …
The LEGO Foundation launch course to support children affected by the social-emotional impacts of COVID-19
The LEGO Foundation is partnering with FutureLearn, the leading social learning platform, to deliver a new course designed to help teachers, parents and educational systems provide social-emotional learning (SEL) support …
FutureLearn becomes first 100% online TNE institution to be able to offer academic credit from Coventry University
FutureLearn, the leading social learning platform, has gained formal academic approval to offer industry-led microcredentials, with credit, from Coventry University, the first UK Institution to achieve 5 stars for online …
LSHTM launch new online course on the control of vector borne diseases
LSHTM and its ARCTEC team, IVCC and LSTM are launching a brand new free online course on the control of vector borne diseases such as malaria, dengue and Zika, to …
Course spotlight: Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance
Stressed by the pace of modern life? Mindfulness might be the answer. Research shows that when you’re not deliberately paying attention to something, your brain goes into default mode causing …
May’s industry round-ups
Opinion: 10 Predictions for Higher Education’s Future Inside Higher Ed, 26 May This piece claims that post-COVID, American colleges will maintain an online presence and many institutions will seek to …
FutureLearn and Founders4Schools launch course to help teachers deliver careers education
Award-winning educational-tech charity Founders4Schools, and leading social learning platform FutureLearn have joined forces to create a ground-breaking online course to equip educators with the digital tools they need to deliver …
The Open University launches Online Teaching microcredential to help educators ease hasty pivot to distance learning
The Open University (OU), a world leader in flexible distance learning, has developed an Online Teaching microcredential to equip those teaching in a higher or further education setting with the …
UNESCO UNITWIN CS-DC launch COVID-19: Pandemics, Modelling, and Policy course on FutureLearn
27 April 2020, London, UK: The UNESCO UNITWIN Complex Systems Digital Campus (CS-DC), an international network of individuals and institutions working together to promote research and education in complex systems …
Government Digital Service launch Content Design course on FutureLearn
17 April 2020, London, UK: Government Digital Service (GDS) has launched an ‘Introduction to Content Design’ course available to join now on leading social learning platform, FutureLearn.com. The course commences …
New FutureLearn course on Diagnostics and Testing for COVID-19 from FIND, ASLM and LSHTM
16 April 2020, London, UK: The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), a global non-profit organization driving innovation in the development and delivery of diagnostics to combat major diseases affecting …
The Open University launches new FutureLearn microcredential to help teachers tackle student mental health crisis
20 February 2020, London UK: The Open University, a world leader in inclusive education, has launched a new microcredential looking at embedding mental health in the curriculum, open for enrolments …
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 …
FutureLearn and Leiden University partner to deliver online courses and microcredentials
LONDON, UK and LEIDEN, NETHERLANDS, 11 November 2019: Leiden University has partnered with FutureLearn.com, Europe’s leading social learning platform, to expand its online learning offering. The university plans to launch …