Press Coverage
If the BBC wants to survive, it must learn how to share its cultural riches
The corporation cannot expect to maintain its £3.5bn a year from the licence fee unless it collaborates with other leading players
MOOC tracker
Massive open online courses – or Moocs – are web-based classes that offer students self-paced learning in their subject of choice.
Mooc fans step out of the shadows
Surprising data from the first wave of massive open online courses show most students are male, educated and living in a developed country.
MOOCs and why open online courses are relevant for enterprises
CIO of the University of Edinburgh, Professor Jeff Haywood, is among those saying enterprises could learn from Massive Open Online Courses
Thousands sign up for Higgs course
More than 10,000 people have signed up for an online course to study the work of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Peter Higgs….
Massive open online courses are shaking up higher education
Towards the end of the year, the Open University in Britain launched FutureLearn, in partnership with a consortium of British and international universities, as well as the British Museum, British Library and British Council. Dozens of courses are now running.
A British MOOC Start Up With A 44 Year Old Parent
FutureLearn is not led by a former academic. Simon Nelson is a businessman, but he was a logical choice to head FutureLearn given his experience working in a variety of media fields that have been threatened and transformed by technology. As a result, Nelson has been programmed to see opportunity in the chaos.
CSI Scotland: Learning lessons from an online murder mystery
Welcome to Introduction to Forensic Science, the murder mystery that doubles as a university course… It’s the work of Strathclyde University and the online learning specialists FutureLearn.