Open universities in the Commonwealth: At a glance
| Published | August 2017 |
| Periodical | Pages 1-60 |
| Publisher | Commonwealth of Learning (COL) |
| Country | Canada, North America |
ABSTRACT
In the absence of comparative data about open universities, the current impact of ODL institutions is not clear. To develop a database of open universities in the Commonwealth, COL initiated a survey. The present report is based on the responses of 27 open universities that responded to our questionnaire.| Keywords | MOOC · OER · OER policy · OER repository · open resources · open universities |
| Published at | Burnaby, British Columbia |
| ISBN | 978-1-894975-89-6 |
| Refereed | Does not apply |
| Rights | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/11599/2786 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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