2026 Q1 Review: Online learning developments in UK higher education
April 9, 2026
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Neil Mosley, Neil Mosley Consulting, Apr 09, 2026 Good overview of the state of online learning in the UK by Neil Mosley. There's no real central theme here, but there's a lot of shuffling of parts and explorations into how to adapt (especially with respect to transnational education (TNE)). It's worth considering some remarks from the Open University's new Vice-Chancellor, David Phoenix, while announcing that it would be abandoning plans to move to the centre of Milton Keynes and begin offering undergraduate courses in person: What we don't want to do is replicate what everybody else is doing.
We want to design facilities for what education might look like in the next 20 years. And I honestly think in the next 20 years there will be less need for people to go and spend three years within a campus-based environment. I agree. Web: [Direct Link] [This Post]
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