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Will massive open online courses change how we teach?

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Sharing recent experiences with an online course.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 8
            August 2012
            105 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2240236
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