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Community journalism: launch your own local news service

Professor Richard Sambrook is lead educator on Cardiff University’s free online course, “Community Journalism: Digital and Social Media.” Here, he looks at some of the trends and ideas behind the course. …

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Forensic science: identifying perpetrators and exonerating the innocent

Dr Lisa Smith, lead educator of the University of Leicester’s free online course, Forensic Science and Criminal Justice starting 31 March on FutureLearn.com talks about what learners can expect to …

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Fly Me to the Moon…

The team behind The Open University’s upcoming ‘Moons’ MOOC unveils what learners can expect to discover by exploring the many moons of our Solar System in this exciting free online …

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Making sense of the world of business and organisations – today and tomorrow

Dr Viktor Dörfler of the University of Strathclyde is lead educator on the free online course, “Understanding Modern Business and Organisations.” He describes how the course will help people in the …

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Muslims in Britain: exploring diversity and challenging stereotypes

Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray, lead educator on Cardiff University’s free online course “Muslims in Britain: Changes and Challenges,” explains how current scholarship is looking beyond media representations to reveal a rich …

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Sixth form students visit University of Reading after taking a course on FutureLearn

Following the free online course, ‘Begin programming: build your first mobile game’ last month, a group of sixth form students from Ousedale School were invited to the University of Reading …

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Facing the new computing curriculum with confidence

Helena Gillespie, the lead educator of the University of East Anglia’s ‘Teaching Computing’ free online course, explains how working with a team including Computing at School (CAS), classroom teachers and …

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The future of the brain

Lead educator for the University of Birmingham’s free online course ‘Good brain, bad brain: basics’, Alison Cooper, discusses human fascination with the brain and what you can learn in this …

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Language is big news

Professor Tony McEnery, the lead educator of the free online course ‘Corpus linguistics: method, analysis, interpretation’ by Lancaster University, talks about the uses and abuses of language. Language is a …

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Cancer research: continuous changes and discoveries

Dr Momna Hejmadi, lead educator of the University of Bath’s free online course ‘Inside cancer: how genes influence cancer development’ talks about the impact cancer has on the whole human …

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Not just another course about sustainability!

Dr Sarah Speight, from The University of Nottingham, talks about the free online course ‘Sustainability, Society and You’ which starts on FutureLearn.com on 6 January. If you ask six …

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Digging deeper into life in the time of Richard III

Deirdre O’Sullivan, the lead educator on the University of Leicester’s free online course, “England in the Time of King Richard III,” talks about what learners can expect to study. There …

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Introducing ‘Ecosystems’ from The Open University

The Open University gives a preview on what their first course on FutureLearn will cover and suggests some pre-course materials to get learners involved ahead of its start. The Open …

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Behind the scenes at the University of Reading

The University of Reading team behind the ‘Begin programming: Build your first Mobile Game’ course, which starts on October 28 on FutureLearn.com, gives an insight into the development process. Find …

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When worlds collide in an online environment

Professor Jon Lovett, Chair of Global Challenges at the University of Leeds, talks about the course starting on October 21st on FutureLearn.com and what learners can expect to study during …

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Community journalism: launch your own local news service

Forensic science: identifying perpetrators and exonerating the innocent

Fly Me to the Moon…

Making sense of the world of business and organisations – today and tomorrow

Muslims in Britain: exploring diversity and challenging stereotypes

Sixth form students visit University of Reading after taking a course on FutureLearn

Facing the new computing curriculum with confidence

The future of the brain

Language is big news

Cancer research: continuous changes and discoveries

Not just another course about sustainability!

Digging deeper into life in the time of Richard III

Introducing ‘Ecosystems’ from The Open University

Behind the scenes at the University of Reading

When worlds collide in an online environment

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