This year, more university students and professors will encounter a trend that has come to be known as “flipping the classroom.” It’s been largely associated with massive open online courses (MOOCs), that edu-tech vogue committed to delivering classes to large numbers of students all at once via video lectures and automated assessments conducted over the Internet.
Some promote MOOCS as the future of lower-cost higher eduction, while others lament them a solutionist privatization of educational practice.
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Ian Bogost on novel education models