Challenges and opportunities for the Open Education movement: A Connexions case study
| Published | October 2008 |
| Series | Opening Up Education The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology Open Content and Open Knowledge Pages 229–246 |
| Publisher | MIT Press |
| Language | en |
| ISBN | 978-0-262-03371-8 |
| Rights | by-nc-nd/3.0 |
| URL | http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262033712pref1.pdf |
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