Instructional quality of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Computers and Education

Volumn 80, Issue , 2015, Pages 77-83

  Margaryan, Anoush ^a   Bianco, Manuela ^a   Littlejohn, Allison ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed learning environments; Evaluation methodologies; Lifelong learning; Massive Online Open Courses; Pedagogical issues

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; CURRICULA; QUALITY CONTROL;

DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; LIFE LONG LEARNING; MASSIVE ONLINE OPEN COURSES; PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84907200816     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

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