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Why massive open online courses (still) matter

Education innovator, Anant Agarwal is pairing online education with face-to-face student-faculty interactions, with the purpose of reshaping the university campus experience. As the head of edX, he makes the case in this significant TED talk that MOOCs still matter — after the hype in 2013 was followed by some disappointing results. Agarwal means that massive open online courses are still a great way to share high-level learning widely and supplement traditional classrooms of the 21st century.

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