Setting Learning Free: Lessons from Online Teaching

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Eric Mazur. 2025. “Setting Learning Free: Lessons from Online Teaching”

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Presentation Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Location: Seminário Tecnologias que Impulsionam o Educação a Distância, SEMESP, Brasilia DF, Brazil

The rapid transition to online teaching necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching in any modality. Moving to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be improved by making them asynchronous and self-paced. What may have seemed like a challenge at first, turned out to be a great opportunity to improve the quality of education.