Assessing the potential of OERs for ODL.
This article provides a critical assessment of the potential of open educational resources (OERs) for open distance learning (ODL). After providing a definition of OERs it discusses the nature of OERs and explores the growth of the OER community. It also examines the different meanings that 'open' h...
| Publicado en: | South African Journal of Higher Education Vol. 27; no. 6; pp. 1490 - 1508 |
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Sabinet Online Limited
2013
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