Strategies for the Adoption of Open Textbooks: The Latin American Open Textbooks Initiative
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1027-5207
DOI: 10.2478/eurodl-2014-0020