Rebecca Ferguson is a full-time lecturer in the UK Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology, focused on Educational Futures. During the past year, she has been involved in guiding the development of the user experience on FutureLearn, a major initiative headed by The Open University that brings together a range of free, open, online courses from leading UK universities, in the same place and under the same brand. Rebecca is a member of the Future Learning Academic Network, which brings together researchers with a focus on the FutureLearn platform, and is currently involved in evaluating the success of some of the first MOOCs to run on the platform.