Impact of OpenCourseWare publication on higher education participation and student recruitment

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 19-32

  Carson, Stephen ^a   Kanchanaraksa, Sukon ^b   Gooding, Ira ^b   Mulder, Fred ^c   Schuwer, Robert ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distance education; Distance universities; E learning; Higher education; Online learning; Open learning; Open universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869486829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v13i4.1238     Document Type: Article

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