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Authorship and use of OER as academic practice for research
Highton, Melissa

Alternate titleSCORE Fellowship Final Report By Melissa Highton, University of Oxford
Published2012
PeriodicalPages 1-10
PublisherSCORE Fellowship
CountryUnited Kingdom, Europe

ABSTRACT
Melissa’s project ran from 20th September 2010 until the 18th September 2011, the aim of the project was to examine policy and practice for OER creation in the context of research led institutions: http://www8.open.ac.uk/score/fellows/melissa-highton

Keywords case study · OER creation · OER policy · research project

Languageen
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URLhttp://www8.open.ac.uk/score/authorship-and-use-oer-academic-practice-research-0
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