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At the end of the program students will take an exam administered at any one of testing centers worldwide to receive a certificate from HBS attesting to their mastery of the content. Unlike most MOOCs which follow a traditional course format of lectures and tests CORe aims to be the first truly interactive online course that leverages the unique capabilities of the online format to pioneer a learning style just as revolutionary to online courses as the case method has been in the classroom.

At first blush you say you can t take the interactive nature of the case method online says Narayanan. Narayanan and his colleagues approached that challenge head on by creating multimedia cases specifically Chinese Overseas America Number Data designed for use online. Each employs a two to three minute video clip to introduce the situation and then engages students with interactive elements such as multiple choice questions and interactive drag and drop challenges that introduce key concepts and test learning. As students progress through the material questions are interspersed with short video lectures and more interactive teaching elements.





The beauty of this is that every student watches the video and answers the questions. In the traditional classroom you are in the hot seat sometimes but spend a lot of time listening to other students. Here you are in the hot seat all the time.  is synchronous—that is everyone is learning at the same time—that concept quickly becomes unwieldy when you think of a videoconference format with a thousand participants. Synchronous learning doesn t scale very well says Narayanan.