Last week the British retail chain Marks & Spencer announced that employees with the University of Leeds in a MOOC innovation company, which is located on the site of the Future Learn is to create.
European platforms such as Future Learn are relatively new to the market MOOC, established in the footsteps of American sites Coursera, Udacity and EDX. All courses offered online point from prestigious universities often co-developed and free to anyone with an Internet connection.
However, Nelson is one of the first to admit MOOCs were unrealistic expectations from the beginning.
"Some of the early hype was overdone, and the anticipation of what is a panacea for the problems of the world of education, and education divisions were optimistic," he said.
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Professor Diana Laurillard, London Knowledge Lab takes over. Introduction MOOCs as a series of video lectures, web forums lead students questionnaires and automated tests, the developers have placed the educational experiences of the past 20 years on ice, Laurillard argues.
"It goes back to primitive and a talking head," he said.
However MOOCs the attention of C-suite executives, including David Richards. The founder and CEO of WANdisco confidence MOOCs disrupt the British education system "stagnant" and the gap between industry and institutions to bridge.
"What makes it very interesting, especially the likes of Stanford, is that theory and practice are integrated. And that's one of the big complaints about the British education system. MOOCs meet Potentially this problem," Richards said.
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