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A race to the bottom: MOOCs and higher education business models

Yoram M. KalmanDepartment of Management and Economics, The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, IsraelCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 5-14 | Published online: 27 Jun 2014

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