Comments on: OU Launches FutureLearn Ltd http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/14/ou-launches-futurelearn-ltd/ Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education Fri, 24 May 2013 12:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Fragmentary Observations from the Outside About How FutureLearn’s Developing | OUseful.Info, the blog... http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/14/ou-launches-futurelearn-ltd/#comment-38947 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:54:11 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9355#comment-38947 [...] Related: OU Launches FutureLearn Ltd [...]

]]> By: “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” UK launches home-grown MOOC | Open vs Free? http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/14/ou-launches-futurelearn-ltd/#comment-37211 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:17:54 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9355#comment-37211 [...] This is a somewhat late consideration of the UK’s new MOOC platform/project – Futurelearn. It was announced  in mid-December 2012 amidst a flurry of managed announcements (dubbed an example of “churnalism” by several edubloggers).To review a list of the initial press coverage, check out OUseful.Info, the blog… post OU Launches FutureLearn Ltd.) [...]

]]> By: Enseñanza-Aprendizaje Virtual: La Open University británica lanza una plataforma de cursos abiertos en línea MOOC http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/14/ou-launches-futurelearn-ltd/#comment-34971 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:40:34 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9355#comment-34971 [...] de Jaime Oyarzo) Para leer más… > Jaime Oyarzo Espinosa hrs. 12:32 Enviar por correo [...]

]]> By: FutureLearn – UK HE Collaborating to Compete « e-LiME http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/14/ou-launches-futurelearn-ltd/#comment-29539 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:30:26 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9355#comment-29539 [...] the OU and with other UK university partners looks to me like one response to this recommendation.  Tony Hirst and Doug Clouw have already blogged about FurtureLearn and  I fully agree with Doug about [...]

]]> By: Marc Eisenstadt http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/14/ou-launches-futurelearn-ltd/#comment-29455 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:37:02 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9355#comment-29455 Not involved in F/L… just v pleased to see positive moves! Tough environment, but this is a great addition to the evolutionary stew.

]]> By: Tony Hirst http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/14/ou-launches-futurelearn-ltd/#comment-29448 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:21:55 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9355#comment-29448 @Tom it’s a classic press launch – just a media release atm. OU press office starting to make a habit out of it… (eg see also “he Open University announces ‘mobile degree app’ OUAnywhere” [ http://www3.open.ac.uk/media/fullstory.aspx?id=24514 ] (the app is nowhere to be found until next year some time…)

]]> By: Tom Roper http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/14/ou-launches-futurelearn-ltd/#comment-29447 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:06:23 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9355#comment-29447 Maybe because I’m outside the charmed circle HE, but, hearing an exciting headline about it on the radio this morning, I looked around to see if there was anything concrete to see. I can find nothing, not even a date when it will go live.
Are their media releases running ahead of the project, and by how much? Months? Years? Decades?

]]> By: FutureLearn [MOOCs from Open University, UK] « Another Word For It http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/14/ou-launches-futurelearn-ltd/#comment-29441 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:06:04 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9355#comment-29441 [...] OU Launches FutureLearn Ltd [...]

]]> By: Tony Hirst http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/14/ou-launches-futurelearn-ltd/#comment-29431 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:38:07 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9355#comment-29431 Hi Marc – thanks for that link…. I’d love to see more of these. I’ve often thought it’d make sense to build an alerter around public university papers…

(Long time no hear, btw. How’s things? Are you involved with the F/L initiative at all….?)

]]> By: Futurelearn may or may not succeed but is well worth a try « Doug Clow's Imaginatively-Titled Blog http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/14/ou-launches-futurelearn-ltd/#comment-29430 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:20:36 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9355#comment-29430 [...] familiar with the basic idea from the press release and related news stories. (If not, Tony Hirst has an excellent roundup. [...]

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