An empirical investigation of the emergent issues around OER adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Learning, Media and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 398-413

  Ngimwa, Pauline ^a   Wilson, Tina ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

challenges of adopting OERs; OERs in Africa; open educational resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871201144     PISSN: 17439884     EISSN: 17439892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2012.685076     Document Type: Article

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