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Professional Development for Sustaining the ‘Pivot’: The impact of the Learning Design and Course Creation Workshop on Six Belarusian HEIs

By: Tom Olney and  Siarhei Piashkun  
Open Access
|Sep 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.639 | Journal eISSN: 1365-893X
Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 29, 2021
Accepted on: May 25, 2021
Published on: Sep 8, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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