Investigating MOOCs through blog mining

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 85-106

  Chen, Yong ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blog mining; MOOC; MOOCs; Online learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900414866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v15i2.1695     Document Type: Article

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