OpenCourseWare, Global Access and the Right to Education: Real access or marketing ploy?
This paper explores the potential opportunities that OpenCourseWare (OCW) offers in providing wider access to tertiary education, based on the ideal of ‘the right to education’. It first discusses the wider implications of OCW, and its underlying philosophy, before using a case study of a tertiary p...
Main Authors: | Henk Huijser, Tas Bedford, David Bull |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Athabasca University Press
2008-02-01
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Series: | International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning |
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Online Access: | http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/446/1002 |
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