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MOOC Smackdown: Coursera vs. AFT
Faculty are increasingly wary of the disruptive trend of free, open-source online courses, particularly the trend of colleges offering credit to students who take such classes. Such an unbundling of the traditional college and degree model jeopardizes the positions of university professors.
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