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To MOOC or not to MOOC: That is the question
Kanwar, Asha and Balaji, Venkataraman

PublishedSeptember 2014
PublisherCommonwealth of Learning (COL)
CountryCanada, North America

ABSTRACT
Transcript and presentation slides from a lecture given at Wawasan Open University, Malaysia, 17 September 2014.

Keywords higher education · MOOC · MOOC credentials · MOOC for universities · open universities · policy development

Published atBurnaby, British Columbia
RightsAttribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/11599/754
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