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Open Education Resources and Massive Open Online Courses
Latchem, Colin

PublishedJanuary 2018
Book titleOpen and Distance Non-formal Education in Developing Countries
Chapter 5, Pages 37-45
SeriesSpringerBriefs in Education
PublisherSpringer, Singapore
CountrySingapore, Asia

ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how the open access movement, open education resources (OER) that can be freely accessed, reused, modified and shared by anyone, and massive open online courses (MOOCs) which are aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the Web can play a crucial role in open and distance non-formal education. It describes how organizations, institutions and countries are collaborating in using these means to provide non-credit, employment creation and capacity-building programmes, the advantages and disadvantages of these technologies and methods and how and why they are now being locally generated.

Keywords developing countries · learning design · massive open online courses · non-formal education · open distance learning · open education resources · virtual university of the small states of the commonwealth

Published atSingapore
ISBN978-981-10-6741-9
RefereedYes
Rights© The Author(s) 2018
DOI10.1007/978-981-10-6741-9_5
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