Money models for MOOCs: Considering new business models for massive open online courses

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 25-28

  Dellarocas, Chrysanthos ^a   Van Alstyne, Marshall ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIT's Center for Digital Business   (United States)

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EID: 84881524166     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2492007.2492017     Document Type: Note

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