Interview
Life in the channel
FutureLearn’s Andy Hancock
Andy Hancock, the new CEO of online learning platform, FutureLearn offers his insight on tech innovation in the education sector – using data, AI and automated models and how education has turned into a marketplace
Tis is what Andy Hancock had to say.
So Andy tell us about FutureLearn? FutureLearn’s purpose has always been to ‘transform access to education’. It is a global online learning platform that has amassed over 18 million registered learners and over 40 million course enrolments. As a learning marketplace learners can access high quality education anytime, anywhere at an affordable price, and where educational partners can put their courses on a ready made, engaging platform that reaches millions of learners. Today, we have over 250 partners, a quarter of those being the top universities in the world. Tis vibrant network also includes a range of Industry, Not- for-Profit and Government organisations, like the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and the Australian Government. One of FutureLearn’s key differentiators is our social pedagogical
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focus which we believe delivers better learning outcomes. Since starting out, courses on FutureLearn incorporate a social experience that encourages greater engagement with the educational content and our learner completion rate and NPS scores are attaining a good level.
What is your new role at the company? My new role as Chief Executive Officer at FutureLearn looks to build on the current success of the company in edtech and then propel it into its next phase of growth. Te MOOCs, marketplaces and other online
courses market is a £4.3bn industry and in double-digit growth (14% CAGR). Tere is a massive opportunity to transform how learners and educators alike experience education digitally, and to support this ever-increasing trend and demand for life-long, just in time or re- skilling learning. Having had lots of experience
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