@neilmosley.bsky.social
Higher education consultant specialising in online learning, distance learning, learning design & edtech. Fellow at the Centre for Online and Distance Education, University of London.
"When this government manages to snap out of what feels like an extended political version of The Play That Goes Wrong, it would be wise to give more serious consideration to the role online learning can play in its agenda." www.neilmosley.com/blog/2025-q3... #onlinelearning #onlineeducation
28.10.2025 08:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"While some EdTech companies position their advantage as offering a prompt-free interface that doesn't rely on prompting skills, this also needs to be underpinned by confidence that the company has a nuanced & sophisticated understanding of learning and teaching."
15.10.2025 07:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"one wonders what the impact would be if UK students had greater options and more explicit and deliberate flexibility within a campus anchored undergraduate degree"
14.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"as things stand, disaggregation of online degree provision is happening largely at PGT level, and given the current online student market and the exclusionary nature of the LLE for online education, I would not expect this to change anytime soon"
12.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“UK higher education sometimes feels as though it’s trying to work out how to make horses go faster, rather than exploring more counterintuitive, behaviourally informed research methods to improve and innovate the experience.” A very interesting read
09.10.2025 07:13 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"There is a certain orthodoxy in how the sector builds a case for doing something new or different, and it tends to be overly reliant on user (student) research focused on asking people what they want."
09.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
"What has been evident this quarter is a more concentrated focus on developing propositions and courses that align with the prevailing narrative of recent years, education as a utility for professional development and skills, particularly in short forms."
08.10.2025 07:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Universities face various questions when starting to develop a portfolio of online courses and degrees. One key decision … is whether to establish a separate online arm with dedicated functions and responsibility for new degrees and, potentially, legacy ones."
07.10.2025 07:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"For Coursera, the challenge is one of credibility, not just growing learner numbers, but proving that its courses and credentials translate into meaningful skills and workplace impact."
04.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"With the summer behind us, it’s time to look back at some key developments in the last quarter in UK higher education, and online education in particular..there has been no shortage of relevant and noteworthy developments over the past quarter" www.neilmosley.com/blog/2025-q3...
02.10.2025 07:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"A challenge..is the extent to which EdTech companies and their products can genuinely offer distinct benefits over general-purpose generative AI tools for many of the functions they are developing."
01.10.2025 07:02 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"It would be obvious to point to the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE)..as a stimulus..but it would be easy to overstate its impact...The funding is focused on disaggregated UG provision, which has minimal presence in the UK HE lifelong learning landscape."
30.09.2025 07:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"AI features are reshaping established EdTech products used by universities, while a wide array of consumer AI technologies are being adopted personally by students and staff alike."
25.09.2025 14:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Coursera is moving toward a competency-based education model in which the unit of organisation is not a degree title like “data science” but the job role itself. Skills, knowledge, and assessments are mapped directly to the realities of that role."
24.09.2025 07:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A very timely post from @neilmosley.bsky.social on online Uni's, reaffirming what I've been saying about the need to consider online fully (and properly) and not try and shoehorn it into an existing structure & workload: www.neilmosley.com/blog/separat...
23.09.2025 08:18 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
" while the choices universities face in operationalising their online course portfolios may lead them down different paths, given projected needs, developing to better serve a mature student audience, motivated by professional dev., would be a wise investment."
23.09.2025 07:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"The shift towards a portfolio focused on careers and employment presents a fundamental challenge for universities, both in being desirable partners that can align with this shift and in facing the competition Coursera presents as an alternative study destination."
19.09.2025 07:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ha, yeah that would be pretty good Sue!
18.09.2025 08:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Some university short course webpages are among the best examples you’ll find anywhere of pages most likely to achieve a 100% bounce rate — countless examples lack the basics students need: pricing, start dates, time commitment, duration and eligibility criteria."
18.09.2025 07:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What could be better than learning about The Beatles online from the University of Liverpool...
#onlinelearning #onlineeducation #highereducation
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"Given everything happening in UK HE, and the increasingly competitive nature of the online education market, the international TNE online market is only going to become more important." www.neilmosley.com/blog/interna... #onlinelearning #onlineeducation #highereducation
17.09.2025 07:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Universities face various questions when starting to develop a portfolio of online courses and degrees. One key decision … is whether to establish a separate online arm with dedicated functions and responsibility for new degrees and, potentially, legacy ones."
16.09.2025 07:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Big news in UK higher education this morning with the news that University of Greenwich and University of Kent are set to merge - would not be surprised to see more of this in the next 12 months - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
10.09.2025 08:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Lifelong learning feels as though it’s becoming less peripheral. A number of universities are investing in new institutes, short course platforms, and flexible offerings, but the real challenge is whether they can make it sustainable.”
10.09.2025 07:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see more conferences on online education springing up in the UK - this Friday 12 September it's the inaugural CROPSNet Conference on the topic of "Driving Progress in Online Postgraduate Taught Education". It's a free, hybrid (in-person & online) conference
www.cropsnet.org/cropsnet-con...
"Postgraduate students are so much more than an extension of the undergraduate community. They are purposeful, motivated and diverse and form a vital component of the academic community." wonkhe.com/blogs/have-w... #onlinelearning #onlineeducation #highereducation
05.09.2025 07:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"crafting a great online learning experience entails a wide range of considerations...there are always new things to learn and consider, and challenges to overcome...and...valuable insights out there on different aspects of the online learning experience."
27.08.2025 07:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"There’s no simple answer to the question of when, where and whether you should use video and what form it should take. But there are plenty of things that can inform the judgement that’s needed for video or that can help you to avoid some common pitfalls." www.neilmosley.com/blog/five-ti...
26.08.2025 07:01 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"We’re now blessed to have a breadth of research and insight available on a swathe of areas related to learning from metacognition to motivation and from feedback literacy to forgetting. (But) How well and deeply is that understood by educators and learning designers?"
21.08.2025 07:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
