Editorial - Cambridge OER 2012 Special Edition
Published | 2012 |
Journal | Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME) Issue JIME Cambridge OER 2012 special issue |
Country | United Kingdom, Europe |
ABSTRACT
This second JIME special edition on Open Educational Resources draws on the success of the recent Cambridge 2012 Conference, which was jointly hosted by the Open Course Ware Consortium (OCWC) and the Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE), at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Key themes from the conference on innovation, impact and collaboration for advancing OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources globally are presented in the papers in this special issue.Language | en |
ISSN | 1365-893X |
Refereed | Yes |
Rights | by/3.0 |
URL | http://jime.open.ac.uk/article/view/2012-09/463 |
Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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