Wikiversity; or education meets the free culture movement: An ethnographic investigation

First Monday

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Friesen, Norm ^a   Hopkins, Janet ^b  

^a THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

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EID: 55249112768     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v13i10.2234     Document Type: Article

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