Following the successful pilot of Kent’s free online short courses (also known as MOOCs, massive open online courses) as part of the K-MOOCs Beacon Project celebrating the University’s 50th anniversary, we are now launching four new free short online courses via learning platform FutureLearn.
The first of these courses titled ‘Functional Programming in Erlang’ is now available for online enrolment and starts on 20 February 2017. This first course is designed to teach the principles of functional programming and combines treatment of the theory of functional programming, and the practice of how that works in Erlang and is reinforced through practical exercises as well as more substantial suggested practical projects
Other upcoming online courses are:
- The Science of Endurance Training and Performance
- Concurrent Programming in Erlang
- Understanding Autism
About FutureLearn
Founded by The Open University in 2012, FutureLearn is a social learning platform, designed to support learning through conversation. It offers over five million learners free online courses from world-leading UK and international universities, centres of research excellence and specialist education providers like the British Council, Creative Skillset and European Space Agency. In May this year, and as a global first, FutureLearn announced that learners could now earn degree course credit through MOOCs with the introduction of a set of Programs.