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EMOOCs 2019, the European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit, was recently hosted in Naples, Italy. The event, now in its 7th year, is organised by the Federica Weblearning Centre at the University of Naples Federico II, and provides a platform for decision-makers and practitioners to explore innovative and emerging trends in online education delivery, and the strategic policy that supports them. This year, the focus was on the future of online education with debates on how HE Institutions face the...

In under a week, two of the world's leading MOOC platforms have announced securing large investments which will go towards their global expansion. UK MOOC platform, FutureLearn announced today receiving a £50m investment, and the US platform Coursera announced last week it had secured $103 million in a Series E round. In both cases, the financing was led by Australia-based SEEK Group, which invests in and scales online employment and education businesses. With the new capital, Coursera is...

UK MOOC platform, FutureLearn, announced today that the SEEK Group (ASX: SEK) will invest £50m to become a joint, 50% owner of the social learning platform, alongside The Open University. The deal is thought to be the largest ever private-sector EdTech investment in Europe. FutureLearn was launched in 2012 by The Open University and partners with over a quarter of the world’s top universities and organisations to offer MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) as well as MOOC-based postgraduate...

FutureLearn, the UK-based MOOC provider, recently announced a new pricing plan - Unlimited - offering unlimited access to most of its short courses for an introductory one-off payment of £149 for one year. This offer will be available until 11 May 2019, after which Unlimited will cost £209. The Unlimited plan allows you to complete any number of short courses which offer a Certificate of Achievement. The courses can be completed in your own time within a year and include a printable digital...

In 2013, the Open Universities Australia (OUA) launched Open2Study, a MOOC platform offering 50 free courses focusing on concrete career skills. The courses, which included free course certificates, were sourced from the Australian universities involved with the Open Universities consortium and also from corporate partners. It has become apparent that the site has been quietly closing down their free offering by gradually removing courses from their catalogue of free courses. There...