Massive open mobile and social learning

1. Massive open mobile and social learning
Mike Sharples
Academic Lead, FutureLearn

2. MASSIVE
OPEN
ONLINE
COURSE
WHAT IS A MOOC?
2 to 6 HOURS
per week
1,000 to 100,000
LEARNERS
OPEN to ALL
No prior qualifications
6 to 10 WEEKS
duration
SOCIAL INTERACTION
throughout

3. EXTENDING EDUCATION
• Not competing with universities for degree courses
• Offering learning for leisure, introduction to higher learning,
pathways into universities
• Celebrating success, not forcing completion
• Flexible indicators of progress and outcomes: profiles, certificates,
exams
• Becoming a ‘FutureLearner’: learning for life

4. EXTENDING EDUCATION
250 million views per year
9 million active learners
7 million course learners
5 million OU registered learners

5. We have excellent
university partners…

6. We’re proud to count 26 world class universities amongst our partners…
PARTNERS

7. And world-leading
content partners…

8. ... plus three world famous cultural institutions
PARTNERS
BRITISH LIBRARY BRITISH COUNCIL BRITISH MUSEUM

9. ... offering free courses worldwide

11. … on multiple devices

12. DESIGNED FOR MOBILE, TABLET & DESKTOP
FutureLearn is designed for the learner to enjoy the experience whatever the location

13. FUTURELEARN PRODUCT
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Built around social-
constructivist learning
Designed through an
agile process, with explicit
input from education
experts and learning
technologists
All new features are
determined with respect
to appropriate and
effective support for
learning

14. FUTURELEARN PRODUCT
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Draws on findings from research on effective learning, such as:
We are not simply adopting
methods from previous
platforms such as Moodle.
We have to rethink
 for massive scale
 a wide variety of learners
with different abilities
 self-motivation rather than
learning for credit
 multiple platformsMASTERY LEARNING
SELF-PREDICTION OF PERFORMANCE
& PROFILES OF PROGRESSION
SOCIAL LEARNING
IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK
VISIBLE LEARNING

17. PEDAGOGY OF THE MASSIVE
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Teaching, learning and assessment appropriate to massive scale learning:
FOLLOWING
Learners follow others,
and being followed
within and across
courses
MENTORING
Support for large
groups of learners by
mentors during a
course
ACTIVITY GROUPS
Small groups of
learners engaged in a
shared activity for a
short time
PEER REVIEW
AND PEER ASSESSMENT
All these, and other pedagogies, are being implemented in a distinctively FutureLearn way
Assessment for learning

24. Telling stories
Provoking conversation
Celebrating progress
Inspiring learning for life through

25. Learning for life