On Thursday 16 February 2017 (12.15-13.45) the E-Learning staff will be holding an E-Learning Forum (ELF) in the UELT Seminar Room at the Unit for Enhancement of Learning & Teaching.

In this ELF, we will explore the development and delivery of massive open online courses (MOOCs) at Kent. Find out about the courses we are developing, the FutureLearn partnership, and how you might get involved.

We first investigated MOOCs (massive open online courses) with a successful pilot in Erlang programming, as part of the K-MOOCs Beacon Project celebrating the University’s 50th anniversary.

One of the key recommendations from our pilot was to partner with FutureLearn, so that we can use their excellent and accessible specialized MOOC platform and achieve greater reach for our courses. The University of Kent is now a member of the FutureLearn partnership, which includes many leading UK and international universities and specialist organisations with a huge archive of cultural and educational materials.

We are now delighted to bring our Functional Programming in Erlang course to a wider audience and to develop further online courses to strengthen public engagement with scholarship and research at Kent. The course is open for enrolment and begins on 20 February.

In addition to our Erlang programming courses, we are also developing courses in Understanding Autism and in The Science of Endurance Sports Performance which learners will be able to enroll for soon.

To book a place please email cpdbookings@kent.ac.uk