Adding flexibility to higher education using OERs: Lessons from the Open University
| Published | December 2011 |
| Series | Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education Chapter 10, Pages 139-147 |
| Publisher | AU Press |
| Editors | Burge, Elizabeth · Gibson, Chère Campbell · Gibson, Terry |
| Country | Canada |
| Keywords | higher education · OER adoption |
| Published at | Edmonton |
| Language | en |
| ISBN | Paperback 978-1-926836-20-1 |
| ISSN | Ebook 978-1-926836-21-8 (pdf) 978-1-926836-62-1 (epub) |
| Rights | by-nc-nd/2.5/ca |
| URL | http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120203 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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