Distance learning - Open educational resources: reasons to be cheerful?
| Published | December 2014 |
| Journal | ACM Inroads Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 37-38 |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Country | United States, North America |
| Keywords | course development · digital repositories · Open Educational Resources · quality |
| Published at | New York |
| ISSN | 2153-2184 |
| Rights | Copyright held by author |
| DOI | 10.1145/2684721.2684729 |
| URL | https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2684721.2684729 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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