Making sense of the MOOCs debate

Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 597-609

  Sharrock, Geoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

blended learning; business models; disruption; innovation; learning analytics; MOOCs; student markets; unbundling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943423671     PISSN: 1360080X     EISSN: 14699508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1360080X.2015.1079399     Document Type: Article

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