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    The boundaries between education and entertainment are blurring, with the emergence of "edutainment" courses. AMC has partnered with the University of California to create an online course based on the TV show The Walking Dead. The course will consist of eight modules covering physics, public health, and mathematics topics related to the show's post-apocalyptic world. While academics say the course will tackle serious issues, students will not earn formal credits. The university insists the course content is rigorous. They hope to reduce the high dropout rates of massive open online courses by leveraging the show's large audience.

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    The boundaries between education and entertainment are blurring, with the emergence of "edutainment" courses. AMC has partnered with the University of California to create an online course based on the TV show The Walking Dead. The course will consist of eight modules covering physics, public health, and mathematics topics related to the show's post-apocalyptic world. While academics say the course will tackle serious issues, students will not earn formal credits. The university insists the course content is rigorous. They hope to reduce the high dropout rates of massive open online courses by leveraging the show's large audience.

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    The boundaries between education and entertainment are blurring, with the emergence of "edutainment" courses. AMC has partnered with the University of California to create an online course based on the TV show The Walking Dead. The course will consist of eight modules covering physics, public health, and mathematics topics related to the show's post-apocalyptic world. While academics say the course will tackle serious issues, students will not earn formal credits. The university insists the course content is rigorous. They hope to reduce the high dropout rates of massive open online courses by leveraging the show's large audience.

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    You are going to read an article about new types of university courses.

    Seven sentences have been


    removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap. There is
    one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

    A We have local apocalypses in our world today, in the form of earthquakes, hurricanes and
    terrorist attacks.
    B TV shows have long launched spin-off products in the form of merchandise and video games.
    C If successful, the edutainment experiment could spawn a huge range of other TV
    show/university hybrid courses.
    D Until now, online learning experiences have been able to deliver great videos and quizzes, but
    student interaction was minimal and the experience for learners has been impersonal.
    E Experts from the Centre for Education and Employment have reservations about the value of
    such online courses where there is no formal assessment or contact between the students and those
    delivering the courses.
    F The course will consist of eight modules including a physics module on ‘the science of decay’,
    a public health module on the study of epidemics and a mathematics module on population
    dynamics.
    G The University of California, which has a huge reputation to uphold, said that there had been
    no dumbing down in the design of the course.
    Online Courses
    The boundaries between education and entertainment are beginning to blur, and a new type
    of learning, in which education merges with entertainment, is emerging – ‘edutainment’
    1. _______ But now US television company AMC has teamed up with the University of
    California to produce an online course based on the TV show, The Walking Dead, which features a
    post-apocalyptic world ridden with zombies.
    With an audience of 10 million, student numbers for the course are expected to be in the hundreds
    of thousands. 2. ________
    Academics from the University of California say that the online course will be a ‘legitimate
    educational experience’ and tackle serious issues from the fields of science, public health,
    nutrition, psychology and sociology. 3. _________ However, students will gain no formal
    qualifications or credits on successful completion of the course.
    4. _________ It insisted that all modules had been made as academically rigorous as those taught
    on the university grounds. One lecturer in social science stated that the university already used
    contemporary media examples to make theories more relevant to students, and this course was
    merely taking this concept one step further. ‘The curriculum is very real,’ says Josh Coates, head
    of Infrastructure and designer of the online platform. 5. ________ ‘The fact that the context is this
    fictional world of an apocalypse is incidental. This course gives us the opportunity to educate
    people about the science of disasters.’
    The market for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, is rapidly expanding. Millions of
    students sign up for online education courses each year. However, millions fail to complete the
    courses, suggesting that they pose a real challenge to online learners. Part of this experiment is to
    find out whether the power of television can reduce the high drop-out rate characteristic of
    MOOCS.
    The university is taking this opportunity to hone the way it delivers online courses. 6. ________
    With the increasing demand for online courses, these are issues that universities looking to invest
    in online learning are increasingly having to face.
    KEY: 1B 2C 3F 4G 5A 6D

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