MOOC development: priority areas

Ferguson, Rebecca; Herodotou, Christothea; Coughlan, Tim; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike (2018). MOOC development: priority areas. In: Luckin, Rosemary ed. Enhancing Learning and Teaching with Technology: What the Research Says. London: UCL IOE Press.

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Abstract

Free online courses that provide learning at scale have the potential to open up education around the world. MOOCs now engage millions of learners. For example, FutureLearn, the UK’s largest MOOC provider passed 6m registered learners in 2017, 75% of these outside the UK. Coursera, the world’s largest platform, claimed 24m learners worldwide in March 2017, of which over half a million were UK learners.
In this section, we explore what the research tells us about how MOOCs need to be developed in order to help provide education for all. This research was carried out at UK universities partnered with the FutureLearn MOOC platform. When it was carried out, FutureLearn had 64 university partners, including 29 within the UK, all linked by the FutureLearn Academic Network (FLAN).

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• Item ORO ID
• 52975
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 1-78277-226-X, 978-1-78277-226-2
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  The Open University (OU)	Not Set	The Open University (OU)

• Keywords
• MOOCs; massive open online courses; FLAN; FutureLearn Academic Network; strategy; pedagogy; learning design; discussion; educators; access; assessment; accreditation
• Academic Unit or School
• Institute of Educational Technology (IET)
• Research Group
• OpenTEL
  Health and Wellbeing PRA (Priority Research Area)
• Depositing User
• Rebecca Ferguson