“The best part was the contact!”: Understanding postgraduate students’ experiences of wrapped MOOCs
By: Tasneem Jaffer, Shanali Govender and Cheryl Brown
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.9.2.565 | Journal eISSN: 2304-070X
Language: English
Page range: 207 - 221
Submitted on: Jan 21, 2017
Accepted on: Apr 14, 2017
Published on: Apr 1, 2017
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