Simon Nelson: FutureLearn
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Focus on quality – in design, pedagogy and content.A PLATFORM THAT PUTS QUALITY FIRST
An innovativesocial learning
approach
High quality content,building on thebest of the web
Simple, delightful,flexible user experience
Courses are from 2-8 weeksWeeks run Mon-Sun and have a title telling you what you’re going to learn
Weeks are made up of activitiesAn activity is a set of steps with
a clear learning objective
Activities are made up of stepsA step could be an article, video,
discussion, test, quiz, assignment…
Intuitive and easy course structure & navigation
Focus on quality – in design, pedagogy and content.A PLATFORM THAT PUTS QUALITY FIRST
Simple, delightful, flexibleuser experience
An innovativesocial learning
approach
High quality content,building on thebest of the web
Simple, delightful,flexible user experience
An innovative social learning approach
Focus on quality – in design, pedagogy and content.A PLATFORM THAT PUTS QUALITY FIRST
Simple, delightful, flexibleuser experience
An innovativesocial learning
approach
High quality content,building on thebest of the web
Simple, delightful,flexible user experience
An innovative social learning approach
High quality content,building on the best of the web
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Effective storytelling
‘To be or not to be’Hamlet: University of Birmingham
Synchronous rotationMoons: The Open University
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Practical experiments and interactive content
Virtual MicroscopeMoons: The Open University
Real World ExperimentsKitchen Chemistry: UEA
Sentence ShufflerA Beginners Guide to WritingEnglish: University of Reading
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46%Average full
participation rate across top 20 courses
Courses by percentage of full participantsFULL PARTICIPATION
Source: all open course runs to October 2015