MIT proposes new role of “Learning Engineer”

This 2017 MIT Online Education Policy Initiative report lays out the case for a new type of education staff member. In order to build personalised blended learning experiences for students, the report argues the need for “learning engineers” – people with terminal degrees in traditional academic disciplines who also have experience with design and interdisciplinary […]

Invest in Blended Learning

We were recently approached by the corporate customer of a Business School in the south east of England, who were looking for more flexible executive education courses.? We don?t usually get approached by our customer?s customers, but we?d done some online learning consultancy for them in the past, and they were looking for a more […]

Why you should disrupt your MBA programme

So you can access new student customers and other markets is the obvious reason. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the first top-ranked US schools to offer a full-time MBA programme entirely at a distance. In 2013, it enrolled 500 students in the second intake of its online MBA that […]

Demonstrating leadership in an emerging higher education learning technology

MOOCs are a useful promotional tool for Universities and professional education providers. Their arrival “en masse” in 2012 changed the way early-adopters like the University of London, reached out to their customers. Like it or not, it is now the turn of all education providers to consider having their own – albeit for a more […]