Two Future Learn courses down - some initial thoughts on the design and the platform
This spring semester seemed to be the spring semester for experimentation (then again, there is almost no bad time for experimentation). I decided, among other things, to really give FutureLearn a try. FutureLearn is still in Beta, so I guess I haven't missed a lot yet, but one of the things that I think is really important when evaluating a course design, or even a platform, is picking courses that you, as a learner, are interested in. Thus, you have two hats to put on, the hat of the learner, and the hat of the evaluator. These roles are mutually in support of one another, so it's a win-win situation. The two courses that I picked for this platform are Corpus Linguistics, so that I could geek out a bit on one of the subjects I am interested in, and the mind is flat, whose title really caught me. I think that if it has been labeled as "Psych 101" I would have just kept walking. Now, it's not possible to judge a platform just on the des...