Towards building a productive, scalable and sustainable collaboration model for open educational resources

Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 273-282

  Luo, Airong ^a   Ng'ambi, Dick ^b   Hanss, Ted ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

collaboration between differently resourced nations; collaboration readiness; distributed collaboration; open educational resources (oer); technology readiness

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION BETWEEN DIFFERENTLY RESOURCED NATIONS; COLLABORATION READINESS; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION; OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES; TECHNOLOGY READINESS;

HEALTH;

EDUCATION;

EID: 78751698689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1880071.1880117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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