Open educational resources: Staff attitudes and awareness

Research in Learning Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rolfe, Vivien ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Open educational resources; Staff attitudes; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864060910     PISSN: 21567069     EISSN: 21567077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0/14395     Document Type: Article

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