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Failure of access: Rethinking open education
Abeywardena, Ishan S

PublishedMarch 2017
PeriodicalPages 1-32
PublisherCommonwealth of Learning (COL)
CountryCanada, North America

ABSTRACT
Presented by Dr. Ishan Abeywardena, Adviser - Open Educational Resources, Commonwealth of Learning, at the keynote presentation for Open Education Week at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada on 28 March 2017.

Keywords MOOC · OER · OER implementation · OER research · open universities · philosophy of open-ness

Published atBurnaby, British Columbia
RightsAttribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/11599/2723
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