Ellie Bird, Author at FutureLearn

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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FutureLearn reaches 10 million learners

LONDON, UK, 4 November 2019: FutureLearn.com, the leading social learning platform, jointly owned by The Open University and The SEEK Group, today announced that it has reached a significant milestone …

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FameLab – my journey with the global science communication competition

Author: Christina Melidou, Partnership Manager at FutureLearn Access to education and scientific knowledge is easier than ever, so why do so many pseudoscientific conspiracy theories circulate online and, more importantly, …

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Educator spotlight: Connecting and inspiring teachers

Teachers are one of our biggest audiences on the FutureLearn platform and their ongoing commitment to developing their skills is an inspiration to us all. Helen Bilton trained as an …

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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 …

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Author: Ellie Bird

Course spotlight: Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance

May’s industry round-ups

FutureLearn and Founders4Schools launch course to help teachers deliver careers education

The Open University launches Online Teaching microcredential to help educators ease hasty pivot to distance learning

UNESCO UNITWIN CS-DC launch COVID-19: Pandemics, Modelling, and Policy course on FutureLearn

Government Digital Service launch Content Design course on FutureLearn

New FutureLearn course on Diagnostics and Testing for COVID-19 from FIND, ASLM and LSHTM

The Open University launches new FutureLearn microcredential to help teachers tackle student mental health crisis

Using a mentor model to enhance learner experience

FutureLearn and Leiden University partner to deliver online courses and microcredentials

Educator spotlight: Using Open Educational Resources to create learning ‘For Everybody’

FutureLearn reaches 10 million learners

FameLab – my journey with the global science communication competition

Educator spotlight: Connecting and inspiring teachers

New research: What teachers want from online learning

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