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"The three universities have invested considerable thought into something less often discussed in the press: how education on their own campuses would benefit from their MOOC efforts. Both faculty members and those in senior administration with responsibility for MOOCs note that the faculty are now more engaged in discussing pedagogy and learning outcomes and that new teaching methods enabled by MOOCs (such as flipped classrooms), and lessons learned from engaging in MOOCs (such as the value of shorter lecture segments and more frequent testing for understanding), are being applied to residential education in interesting ways."

" for a larger and more diverse cross-section of the population, to cater for emerging patterns on educational involvement which facilitate lifelong learning and to include technology-based practices in the curriculum" (p. 143). A source of this transformation stems from the ability of online learners to be both together and apart-and to be connected to a community of learners anytime and anywhere, without being time, place, or situation bound. Moreover, the increasingly prevalent practice of the convergence of text-based asynchronous Internet-based learning with face-to-face approaches is having a volatile impact on traditional campus-based institutions of higher education. To this point, the Pr"

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"At its simplest, blended learning is the thoughtful integration of classroom face-to-face learning experiences with on-line learning experiences", t"

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