Making it matter: Supporting education in the developing world through open and linked data
| Published | May 2014 |
| Publisher | Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Making it Matter Workshop |
| Country | Canada, North America |
ABSTRACT
Video presentation at the Making it Matter Workshop organised by the LinkedUp Project and the Commonwealth of Learning, London, United Kingdom, 16 May 2014. Duration: 17:03 // Resource contains link to video as well as a document of the presentation slides.| Keywords | DOER · higher education OER · OER discoverability · OER producing countries · offlining OER |
| Published at | Burnaby, British Columbia |
| Refereed | Does not apply |
| Rights | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/11599/658 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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