Who studies MOOCs? Interdisciplinarity in MOOC research and its changes over time

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1-17

  Veletsianos, George ^a   Shepherdson, Peter ^b  

^a ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Interdisciplinary research; MOOC; Online education; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933509825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v16i3.2202     Document Type: Article

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