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Oct 5 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Notable news in the world of online education in higher ed - Open University has announced its intention to find a buyer for its 50% stake in FutureLearn #onlinelearning #edtech #highered 1/
The other 50% is owned by SEEK - it will be interesting to observe whether a new investor will be forthcoming and whether in the short to medium term whether this will represent an upturn or a further downturn in fortunes. 2/
I wrote a thread earlier in the year about FutureLearn - and worrying financial results 3/
...and also explore the role of MOOCs and MOOC platforms like FutureLearn in UK universities future - neilmosley.com/blog/nm6ovv8dv… 4/
News on FutureLearn is especially pertinent to the UK as of the over 50 UK universities that partner with MOOC platforms (FL, edX, Coursera) the vast majority of them partner only with FutureLearn. 5/
but as I wrote about in the article above - around 75% of UK universities partnered with MOOC platforms seem to have small levels of engagement or a decline in engagement - so it raises question marks over UK universities MOOC activity amongst other things. 6/

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Oct 7
Some reflections on the situation at FutureLearn as it's unfolded this week and thinking ahead - a thread…⬇️ 1/

#onlinelearning #edtech #highered #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
Indicators haven’t been good for a long time - sadly and the recent news is the culmination of a business that consistently hasn’t been profitable. 2/
They have faced the same challenge of other MOOC platforms in moving from an enterprise initially focussed on free open courses into something that could be financial sustainable and profitable. 3/
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Jul 30
Should we be worried about FutureLearn?
#onlinelearning #highered

A thread 🧵⬇️
A few weeks back I wrote about MOOC platforms and about their potential future relationship with UK universities. It felt like an opportune time to do so 10 years on from the huge MOOC buzz of 2012. 1/
I spent some time looking at three of major MOOC platforms Coursera, edX and FutureLearn, because it’s hard to divorce the MOOC as an educational model from the platforms that have sprung up around them. 2/
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Jul 28
Interesting release from 2U on current financial performance but also interestingly on future direction which appears to be coalescing under the edX brand and further developing that as marketplace platform. Job losses also look likely #onlinelearning investor.2u.com/news-and-event…
More on 2Us future direction - the new revenue share model is broken down with a minimum 35% that increases depending on taking marketing, support and content development services - with all these it rises to 60%. Fairly transparent proposition... 2u.com/latest/2u-unve…
Would be very interested to see what marketing actually looks like in the core bundle and how much that is really banking on the edX brand and as an existing marketplace destination.
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Jun 15, 2021
Learning design is about designing and creating the best conditions for learning to result. It’s the design of experiences and those experiences come in different shapes and sizes. 1/
It’s about designing for people - which means it’s complex. I love this quote from Dieter Rams that speaks to this - “You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people”. 2/
The learning design process can range in its breadth and depth and we often think of it way too narrowly - you write some learning outcomes, design an assessment, create content & activities and then boom, you're done... 3/
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Feb 12, 2021
Interesting report...some comments if I may as someone who has and continues to work in this space within universities, education more generally and with private edtech...1/
One of the actors that fails to get any kind of scrutiny is universities themselves who have complete autonomy as to the decisions they make about edtech. The silence on this and the general narrative portrays them as passive, obsequious actors with no choice...2/
There’s also a kind of historical naivety that makes the pandemic year zero for this stuff and there’s not enough time spent exploring the ‘why’ from a historical context. This isn’t simply about scope but about the narrative presented...3/
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Feb 12, 2021
If you’re a university or education provider then one of the key aspects of digital transformation is thinking about the role of an educator/academic in this changed state. For universities an academic is expected to be a good educator, good researcher...1/
...keep up to date in their field and have numerous other responsibilities..oh and now be much more of a learning experience designer, a producer of videos and other media, a designer of a platform experience and it’s navigation, structure and other components of the UI...2/
Of course there’s some support for this but it’s not at a ratio that makes a huge difference and it’s light or non-existent in many areas. Can an academic wear all those hats? Should they? Will that result in the best experience for academics & students?...3/
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