Open & online: Wales, higher education and emerging modes of learning: Report of the Online Digital Learning Working Group
Online Digital Learning Working Group [corporate]
| Published | March 2014 |
| Periodical | Pages 1-90 |
| Publisher | Llywodraeth Cymru Welsh Government |
| Country | United Kingdom, Europe |
ABSTRACT
In February 2013, Leighton Andrews AM, then Minister for Education and Skills established the Online Digital Learning Working Group.The Group drew on expertise from further and higher education in Wales. Its remit was to advise on the challenges to higher education in Wales of emerging trends in online learning.
| Keywords | business model · higher education · monetisation of MOOC · MOOC · OER institutional policy · OER professional development · Welsh government · Welsh MOOCs |
| Published at | Cardiff |
| ISBN | 978 1 4734 0396 3 |
| Other number | WG20081, WG20081 |
| Refereed | Does not apply |
| Rights | © Crown copyright 2014 |
| URL | http://wales.gov.uk/docs/dcells/publications/140402-online-digital-learning-working-group-en.pdf |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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