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FutureLearn.com, the leading social learning platform, jointly owned by The Open University and The SEEK Group, have announced that it has now reached 10 million registered learners on their platform. Launched in December 2012, this is a significant milestone for the UK-based MOOC platform which has learners in every country in the world with over 70% of these from outside the UK. Image Source: FutureLearn Blog Having started out 6 years ago with 23 founding partners, the company now...

UK MOOC platform FutureLearn and The British Council have partnered for a fourth time to give free access to online courses from UK higher education institutions to people in non-OECD countries. The initiative, part of the Study UK program, gives people in eligible countries access to 325 massive open online courses (MOOCs) from 35 UK universities, plus the chance to earn one of up to 50,000 free digital upgrades. The ‘Study UK: Learn online with a UK university’ campaign on FutureLearn...

MOOC platform Coursera recently announced their latest offering, Coursera for Campus, opening their door to the "remaining 99% of 20,000 universities worldwide and help them take a digital leap." Coursera for Campus enables any university — including those outside of Coursera’s partner ecosystem — to integrate credit-eligible Coursera online courses into their curricula to deliver job-relevant, multi-disciplinary skills to its learners. Image Source Coursera Blog The service will give...

Coursera announced yesterday the introduction of a new capability which will allow their partners to create standalone or course-integrated hands-on projects using almost any third-party software application. This will mean that learners will be able to work on projects and assignments directly in a browser using tools like Jupyter Notebook, RStudio, VS Code, and cloud software consoles without any environment setup or software downloads. The unveiling of Coursera Labs coincided with the...

OUTLIER is a new online education platform that offers comprehensive, engaging, and beautifully-produced online courses that earn students real college credit. Their aim is to make higher education more accessible, equitable and affordable. The university-level courses are cinematically filmed and taught by some of the most celebrated educators in the world, including professors from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Cornell. Students have access to 1-on-1 tutoring, AI-proctored assessments...