Time

Session Title

Presenters

10.30-1pm

Meet FutureLearn

An informal session to meet the FutureLearn Content Team and Partner Development Team.

You can talk to us about courses you are working on or courses that you are thinking about. Ask us anything.

Nigel Smith, Head of Content, FutureLearn

Alyssa Tisne, Director of New Partnerships, FutureLearn

David Thair, Social Lead, FutureLearn

Katherine Weber, Partnership Manager, FutureLearn

Vanessa Carbajal, Partner Development Manager, FutureLearn

1-2pm

Lunch

2-2.20pm

Welcome to Pompeu Fabra

Manel Jiménez, project lead for Pompeu Fabra’s FutureLearn courses, welcome delegates and provides a brief overview of their FutureLearn story. 

Manel Jiménez, Pompeu Fabra

2.20-2.40pm

Introduction from Nigel Smith, Head of Content:

Introduction to the two days of the forum and meet the FutureLearn team.

Learner stories and demographic of our learners.

Nigel Smith, Head of Content, FutureLearn

2.40-3.10pm

What’s the role of the lead educator and the course team?

Presentation and discussion

Nigel Smith, Head of Content, FutureLearn

3.10-3.30pm

Coffee break

3.30-3.45pm

Simon Nelson

(video)

CEO, FutureLearn

3.45-4.30pm

Learning Design Patterns workshop:

A workshop exploring design within FutureLearn courses and examining how you can refine and reuse them.

Nigel Smith, Head of Content,

Katherine Weber, Partnership Manager,

FutureLearn

4.30-5pm

Effective storytelling:

case study

Howard Ramsay and Aidan Johnston, University of Strathclyde

5-5.30pm

FutureLearn update:

Alyssa Tisne will provide a strategic and business update

Alyssa Tisne, Director of New Partnerships, FutureLearn

5.30-7pm

Drinks reception

Time

Session Title

Presenters

9-9.30am

Arrival and refreshments

9.30-9.40am

Brief introduction

Katherine Weber, Partnership Manager

9.40-10.30am

Embedding FutureLearn within a digital learning strategy:

A case study (with Q&A)

Neil Morris, Leeds University

10.30-11.30am

Panel discussion:

How to get the best out of social learning: a discussion on how to engage learners and provoke conversation

Chaired by David Thair

11.30-12pm

Coffee break

12-1pm

FutureLearn product update:

We will share a review of platform features, details of how we’re growing and what our development teams will be working on in the coming months.

Alyssa Tisne, Director of New Partnerships, FutureLearn

1-2pm

Lunch

2-3pm

Studio session:

Educators at UPF share their strategies and techniques working with FutureLearn

Follow the Studio session by streaming

Dolors Folch and Cristina Gelpí

Tallers Building, Studio

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

3-3.45pm

Show &Tell:

Tour of Universitat Pompeu Fabra technical facilities where the MOOCs are made

Visit UPF Library

Tallers Building

3.45-4pm

Coffee Break

4-4.15pm

Closing Address

Rector, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Jaume Casals, Rector, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

4.15-5pm

Have your say:

Ask FutureLearn anything. Final wrap-up.

All FutureLearn staff