MOOCs and Pedagogy: Teacher-Centered, Student-Centered, and Hybrids

“In a traditional course, the instructor creates knowledge coherence by bounding the domain of knowledge that the learners will explore: i.e. this is the course text, here are the readings, quizzes will validate that you’ve learned what I think is important, etc.”

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