MOOCs, institutional policy and change dynamics in higher education

Higher Education

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 623-635

  O’Connor, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Change dynamics; Higher education curriculum; Institutional policy; Massive open online courses (MOOCs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911995224     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: 1573174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-014-9735-z     Document Type: Article

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