MOOCs and their impact on academics

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 2014-November, Issue November, 2014, Pages 137-145

  Sheard, Judy ^a   Eckerdal, Anna ^b   Kinnunen, Päivi ^c   Malmi, Lauri ^c   Nylén, Aletta ^b   Thota, Neena ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH   (Macao)

Author keywords

Academics; Distance learning; E learning; Massive Open Online Courses; MOOCs; Open learning; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE EDUCATION; E-LEARNING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ACADEMICS; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; MOOCS; OPEN LEARNING; PEDAGOGY;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84949235979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2674683.2674700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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