Southampton to run one of first FutureLearn Moocs

By Chris Parr. One of the first Moocs on the FutureLearn platform will be a University of Southampton web science course beginning on November 11, it has emerged. Although Southampton offers both a master’s and an undergraduate degree in web science, its massive open online course will not be a direct port of an existing module. Rather, it will be a “mini” course, designed to offer a taster of what students might experience were they to take a paid course at the university.
“It’s an introduction to web science – I think it could be studied by anyone who is interested in studying web science at master’s or undergraduate level,” said Dame Wendy Hall, professor of computer science at Southampton, who has already recorded some videos that will form part of the Mooc. More...