MOOC's business models: Turning black swans into gray swans

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 45-49

  Aparicio, Manuela ^a,b   Bacao, Fernando ^b   Oliveira, Tiago ^b  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^b NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

business models; cMOOC; e Learning; massive open online courses; MOOC; SPOC; xMOOC

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BUSINESS MODELS; CMOOC; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; MOOC; SPOC; XMOOC;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84903625157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2618168.2618175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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