Emerging patterns in MOOCs: Learners, course designs and directions

TechTrends

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 56-63

  Macleod, Hamish ^a   Haywood, Jeff ^a   Woodgate, Amy ^a   Alkhatnai, Mubarak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Digital education; Higher education; MOOCs; Widening access

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940895733     PISSN: 87563894     EISSN: 15597075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11528-014-0821-y     Document Type: Article

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