Ferguson, Rebecca; Herodotou, Christothea; Coughlan, Tim; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike
(2018).
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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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ISBN: | 1-78277-226-X, 978-1-78277-226-2 | ||||||
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Keywords: | MOOCs; massive open online courses; FLAN; FutureLearn Academic Network; strategy; pedagogy; learning design; discussion; educators; access; assessment; accreditation | ||||||
Academic Unit/School: | Learning and Teaching Innovation (LTI) > Institute of Educational Technology (IET) Learning and Teaching Innovation (LTI) |
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Research Group: | OpenTEL Health and Wellbeing PRA (Priority Research Area) |
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Item ID: | 52975 | ||||||
Depositing User: | Rebecca Ferguson | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2018 10:37 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2018 11:01 | ||||||
URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/52975 | ||||||
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