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Transmission mode Classes work are said to be in transmission mode when the flow of information is one way only - from the teacher to students, with the students are passive receivers of knowledge. This is the basic dynamic for instructivism, an approach in which teaching is principally a matter of giving facts to students.

The opposite approach to instructivism is constructivism.