Open textbooks, Open Education Resources and MOOCs in the Commonwealth
Published | 19 February 2018 |
Conference | 20th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers Pages 1-14 |
Publisher | Commonwealth of Learning (COL) |
Country | Canada, North America |
ABSTRACT
Presented by Dr Venkataraman Balaji, Director: Technology and Knowledge Management, Commonwealth of Learning, at the 20th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers, 19 February 2018, Nadi, Fiji.Keywords | MOOC · OER · OER quality · open textbook initiatives · open textbooks |
Published at | Burnaby, British Columbia |
Refereed | Does not apply |
Rights | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/11599/2858 |
Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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