Digital culture clash: "massive" education in the E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC

Distance Education

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 164-177

  Knox, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

connectivism; constructivism; individualism; instructionism; MOOC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904038591     PISSN: 01587919     EISSN: 14750198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2014.917704     Document Type: Article

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