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Massive Open Online Courses for development (MOOC4D)
Balaji, Venkataraman

PublishedNovember 2017
PeriodicalPages 1-24
PublisherCommonwealth of Learning (COL)
CountryIndia, Asia

ABSTRACT
Presented by Dr. Ventakaraman Balaji, Director - Technology and Knowledge Management, Commonwealth of Learning, at a Faculty Workshop on a MOOC on Life Skills for Engineers, Kanpur, India, 27 November 2017.

Keywords blockchains · lifeskills · messaging · mobile learning · MOOC · MOOC policy · MOOCs for Agriculture · off-lined MOOCs · open learning

Published atBurnaby, British Columbia
RightsAttribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/11599/2830
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