Upskilling the medical workforce, effectively for free, is now possible, says Mark Lester, Global Head of Education Partnerships at FutureLearn
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revolutionary new learning method has taken hold in the Higher Education sector, led by The Open University (OU) in conjunction with major UK and international
universities. FutureLearn delivers massive open online courses (or MOOCs as they are commonly called) bringing together the world’s leading educators with anyone with an internet connection, in a highly interactive learning experience. FutureLearn was set up by The OU to deliver
these MOOCs which allow an unlimited number of participants from all over the world to enrol on each course. The OU has always been at the forefront of distance education, but this new system pioneers ’social learning‘, whereby people from all over the world learn by having conversations around the course content formulated by more than 40 leading universities from around the world. FutureLearn offers courses across a range of
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subjects but it is in Healthcare that Mark Lester sees enormous potential to revolutionise workplace learning. “FutureLearn is going to deliver probably the
best of British medical education to practitioners across every level of care, and to patients,” he says. “We believe that people learn best when they learn together. Having conversations around the course steps gives people a unique learning experience, where they not only get to engage with world class content but with others around the world with shared learning objectives in a way that’s not been possible before.” Creating a delightful user experience is a major
preoccupation for FutureLearn so the company recruited extensively from the consumer technology and media backgrounds to enable the team to bring academic material to life and create engaging content for a wide variety of audiences. The
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