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"The challenges faced by higher education around the world are daunting and cannot be met by the traditional institution-based education system," write Stephen Carson and Jan Philipp Schmidt. What we are seeing through recent work is that there is another way. Of course they focus on the Coursera and MITx model. "Open content lies at the core of these massive online courses. Typically, a series of video lectures, with short quizzes built in, make up the bulk of the instruction for users."

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