The Quiet Revolution in Open Learning
| Published | May 2011 |
| Periodical | Volume 2011 |
| Publisher | The Chronicle of Higher Education |
ABSTRACT
Discusses the history of Open Educational Resources in the United States, mentioning funding, stakeholders and examples of OERs.| Keywords | Open Educational Resources · Creative Commons · accreditation · Mozilla Open Badges · Khan Academy · MIT · OER quality |
| Language | eng |
| Other number | 2011-11-03 |
| URL | http://chronicle.com/article/The-Quiet-Revolution-in-Open/127545/ |
| Access date | 2011-11-03 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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