Massive Open Online Courses for development (MOOC4D)
| Published | November 2017 |
| Periodical | Pages 1-24 |
| Publisher | Commonwealth of Learning (COL) |
| Country | India, 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 at | Burnaby, British Columbia |
| Rights | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/11599/2830 |
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