Roles of course facilitators, learners, and technology in the flow of information of a CMOOC

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 188-217

  Skrypnyk, Oleksandra ^a   Joksimović, Srećko ^b   Kovanović, Vitomir ^b   Gasšević, Dragan ^b   Dawson, Shane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

MOOCs; Social network analysis; Socio technical networks; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933498518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v16i3.2170     Document Type: Article

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