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Critical Perspectives
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Five critiques of the open educational resources movement

Jeremy KnoxMoray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 821-832 | Received 28 Mar 2012, Accepted 23 Jan 2013, Published online: 12 Mar 2013

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