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From the Ted Talk by Anant Agarwal: Why massive open online courses (still) matter

Unscramble the Blue Letters

It's also been a real iusse in terms of access. So what you see here is not a rock cncoert. And the person you see at the end of the stage is not Madonna. This is a classroom at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. Now, we've all heard of distance education, but the students way in the back, 200 feet away from the instructor, I think they are undergoing long-distance etcuidoan. Now, I really believe that we can transform education, both in quality and scale and access, through technology. For example, at edX, we are trying to transform education through online technologies. Given education has been calcified for 500 years, we really cannot think about reengineering it, micromanaging it. We really have to ceptemloly rigimeane it. It's like going from ox crtas to the airplane. Even the infrastructure has to change. Everything has to change. We need to go from leucters on the blackboard to online exercises, onnlie videos. We have to go to interactive viurtal laboratories and gamification. We have to go to completely online gndraig and peer interaction and discussion boards. Everything really has to change.

Open Cloze

It's also been a real _____ in terms of access. So what you see here is not a rock _______. And the person you see at the end of the stage is not Madonna. This is a classroom at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. Now, we've all heard of distance education, but the students way in the back, 200 feet away from the instructor, I think they are undergoing long-distance _________. Now, I really believe that we can transform education, both in quality and scale and access, through technology. For example, at edX, we are trying to transform education through online technologies. Given education has been calcified for 500 years, we really cannot think about reengineering it, micromanaging it. We really have to __________ _________ it. It's like going from ox _____ to the airplane. Even the infrastructure has to change. Everything has to change. We need to go from ________ on the blackboard to online exercises, ______ videos. We have to go to interactive _______ laboratories and gamification. We have to go to completely online _______ and peer interaction and discussion boards. Everything really has to change.

Solution

  1. concert
  2. carts
  3. virtual
  4. education
  5. online
  6. completely
  7. issue
  8. reimagine
  9. lectures
  10. grading

Original Text

It's also been a real issue in terms of access. So what you see here is not a rock concert. And the person you see at the end of the stage is not Madonna. This is a classroom at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. Now, we've all heard of distance education, but the students way in the back, 200 feet away from the instructor, I think they are undergoing long-distance education. Now, I really believe that we can transform education, both in quality and scale and access, through technology. For example, at edX, we are trying to transform education through online technologies. Given education has been calcified for 500 years, we really cannot think about reengineering it, micromanaging it. We really have to completely reimagine it. It's like going from ox carts to the airplane. Even the infrastructure has to change. Everything has to change. We need to go from lectures on the blackboard to online exercises, online videos. We have to go to interactive virtual laboratories and gamification. We have to go to completely online grading and peer interaction and discussion boards. Everything really has to change.

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Important Words

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