ACYPI Sydney's Young Entrepreneurs Forum at OpenLearning

Back for the third year, OpenLearning was proud to host the Australia-China Young Professional Initiative (ACYPI) for their annual Young Entrepreneurs Forum event last week! This year’s panel boasted an impressive line-up of entrepreneurs, investors and coaches from HelloFresh, Airtasker, BMY Group and Investible.

SoGal First Meetup in Australia

We proudly partnered with SoGal to host their very first Australian event! SoGal is a global network of diverse entrepreneurs and investors that have attracted more than 50,000 members from over 20 countries. Having hosted events in countries like China, the US, Indonesia and more, SoGal now aims to foster a network of young ambitious women in Australia. The event focused on inspiring women to pursue roles in tech, discover actionable steps for their business ventures, meet role models in technology and entrepreneurship, and educate others with the aim of improving gender diversity in the workforce.

Adam Brimo Begins Term as CEO@Faculty for UiTM

Our CEO and Co-Founder Adam Brimo has been appointed as the new CEO @ Faculty for MARA University of Technology (UiTM) following his previous stint at Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI). CEO@Faculty is an industry-academia collaboration introduced with the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025 to reduce the mismatch in supply and demand between employers and fresh graduates. Adam spoke to the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry about Heutagogy and he will be visiting more UiTM campuses for more talks.

OpenLearning as University of Science, Malaysia Official MOOC Platform

We are honoured to announce our latest formal partnership with the University of Science, Malaysia (USM). USM has already created 6 MOOCs on OpenLearning since joining our platform in 2015. We are looking forward to continue working with the passionate educators at USM, to bring Malaysian higher education into the global arena. USM is now planning to develop 12 more MOOCs that will be launched on OpenLearning this year! 

What’s on our blog this month:

• Why 'Voice and Choice' Matter To Your Learning Design & Teaching Practice

It’s never too late to join our popular courses:

• Active Learning: from Delivery Towards Facilitation

OpenLearning in the media:

• Our CEO and Co-Founder Adam Brimo is featured as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia