MOOC in Latin America: Implementation and lessons learned

Springer Proceedings in Complexity

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 147-158

  Rizzardini, Rocael Hernández ^a   Gütl, Christian ^b,c   Chang, Vanessa ^c   Morales, Miguel ^a  

^a Galileo University   (Guatemala)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloud based tools; CMOOC; Collaborative learning; Massive open online course; XMOOC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982211918     PISSN: 22138684     EISSN: 22138692     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7308-0_16     Document Type: Chapter

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