Henley Launches its First MOOC

FutureLearn is the UK’s first MOOC platform. It was launched in December 2012 and is gathering steam. It is wholly owned by the Open University, but it partners with 22 other UK universities and three overseas ones (Monash in Australia; Auckland in New Zealand; and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland). Unusually, FutureLearn also partners with three other non-educational, but nonetheless academic institutions: the British Museum, British Council and British Library.
As with all the major MOOC providers the range of programs they offer are somewhat eclectic. Currently on FutureLearn you can choose from ‘Exploring Anatomy: The Human Abdomen’ through ‘Begin Programming: Write your first mobile game’ to ‘An Introduction to Physical Actor Training’. Within this range is also a growing number of business and professional programs too. The University of Strathclyde offering ‘Understanding Modern Business and Organisations’, The University of East Anglia has ‘The Secret Power of Brands’, Loughborough University’s ‘Innovation and Enterprise’ and some more focused on professionals such as ‘Fairness and Nature: When Worlds Collide’ an exploration of policy on decision-making regarding the use of managing natural resources from the University of Leeds, and similarly from the University of Bath ‘make an Impact: Sustainability for Professionals’. More...