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Between Social Justice and Decolonisation: Exploring South African MOOC Designers’ Conceptualisations and Approaches to Addressing Injustices Cover

Between Social Justice and Decolonisation: Exploring South African MOOC Designers’ Conceptualisations and Approaches to Addressing Injustices

By: Taskeen Adam  
Open Access
|May 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.557 | Journal eISSN: 1365-893X
Language: English
Submitted on: Nov 28, 2019
Accepted on: Apr 5, 2020
Published on: May 11, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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