What public media reveals about MOOCs: A systematic analysis of news reports

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 510-527

  Kovanovic, Vitomir ^a   Joksimovic, Srecko ^b   Gaševic, Dragan ^a   Siemens, George ^c   Hatala, Marek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY;

EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY; GENERAL PUBLICS; HIGHER EDUCATION; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; NEWS REPORTS; PUBLIC DEBATE; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84929954394     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjet.12277     Document Type: Article

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