Five critiques of the open educational resources movement

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 821-832

  Knox, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autonomy; Foucault; OER; open education; self direction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887063235     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2013.774354     Document Type: Review

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