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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...

Monty King, Learning Designer at FutureLearn, shares insights from the free online course ‘How To Teach Online: Providing Continuity for Students’, and offers some tips if you’re new to online learning. Teaching Online How to Teach Online: Providing Continuity for Students was built in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has been designed to provide support, guidance and expertise to teachers who do not know where to start with online learning. It was also conceptualised as a space for...

The Ultimate Guide to MOOC Certificates An in-depth review of the different certificate options provided by the major MOOC platforms MOOC providers often award certificates on completion of a course on the condition that certain criteria have been met. There are usually different certificate options, some of which may be free of charge and others which incur a relatively small fee, and may offer identity verification. This information can usually be found on the course description page...

What are the best ways to learn? And more importantly, what are the best ways to remember what you learn? Effective learning is about remembering the information you learn, recalling it when you need to, and using that information effectively to successfully achieve a particular task or goal. So how do you become a better learner? The following tips will help you get more out of your study time. Keep learning sessions short & frequent Short frequent learning sessions are more effective...

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