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Martin Bean, VC of the Open University, didn't go into much detail about how the members were selected, just that they were working together out of common interest in his address he stated: "9. So for the past few months we’ve been working with other top universities - including Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, St Andrews, Southampton and Warwick – to create Futurelearn home of the UK MOOC." I wonder if the selection also had something to do with those institutions which were already working with US universities' MOOC (David might have a lot more insight into that than I do) "7. 18 of the top 20 North American universities already offer MOOCs and, like OpenLearn, they’re phenomenally popular. Coursera – which delivers courses for the likes of Princeton, Brown and Caltech – has almost two million registered students, while EdX –which partners with MIT and Harvard – averages 50,000 students for each of its courses." Best, Frank Dr. Frank C. Manista Mimas The University of Manchester 5th Floor Roscoe Building M13 9PL 0161 275 0155 (external) 50155 (internal) ________________________________ From: Open Educational Resources [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Suzanne Hardy [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 14 December 2012 11:37 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Future learn Yes the list is interesting. And doesn't appear on the Futurelearn site itself as far as I can see.... I wonder how the HEIs in that list were recruited? -- Suzanne Hardy Senior Advisor (Information) MEDEV School of Medical Sciences Education Development Newcastle University email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> direct line: +44 191 246 4550 mobile: 07790 905657 fax: +44 191 222 5016 blog: www.medev.ac.uk/blog/suzannes-blog/<http://www.medev.ac.uk/blog/suzannes-blog/> web: www.medev.ac.uk/<http://www.medev.ac.uk/> Twitter: twitter.com/medev_ncl<http://twitter.com/medev_ncl> Skype: glitt3rgirl Visitors please come to 1-2 Claremont Terrace, NE2 4AE On 14 Dec 2012, at 11:31, Pat Lockley wrote: Hi all, http://www.futurelearn.com/ What are peoples thoughts then? Seems an interesting list of participants (http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/13/12-u-k-universities-forge-moocs-alliance-futurelearn-consortium-will-offer-uni-branded-open-online-courses-starting-next-year/) given UK OER people don't seem to appear much (bar the OU). Pat