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Stephen Downes

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I guess now that a Harvard professor has endorsed it, the debate about onlin elearning is now over. ""I have never been able to offer a course of the quality that I'm offering now," he (Eric Mazur) says. "I am convinced that there is no way I could do anything close to what I'm doing in person. Online teaching is better than in person." This post links to Teaching: Why an Active-Learning Evangelist Is Sold on Online Teaching by Beth McMurtrie in the Chronicle and which may or may not be locked behind a paywall (depending, I guess, on what the AI says about your liklihood of subscribing).

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