focuses on xMOOCs like Coursera and Udacity, basically ignoring cMOOCs. He argues MOOCs misrepresent how teaching works because:
- The main activity of a higher-education teacher is not to lecture
- A teacher is an expert at teaching the topic, and the teaching is dependent on the domain
- The job of the teacher is to educate, not filter, and that includes motivating students
He writes, "There is evidence that MOOCs do not teach. We knowthat MOOCs have a low completion rate. What most people don't realize is that the majority of those who complete already knew the content. MOOCs offer a one-size-fits-few model, unchanging between content domains, that does not change for individual students (I know that they hope that it will opne day, but it doesn't now)."
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