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Open Source Environments in Education: Beyond Virtual Learning Environments

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The possibility of creating and sharing content on line is given by a set of tools that allow to use the Web as if it were a normal application.

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  1. Department of Economics, Second University of Naples, Corso Granpriorato Di Malta, 1, I-81043, Capua, Italy

    Maria Rosaria Della Peruta

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Peruta, M.R.D. (2014). Open Source Environments in Education: Beyond Virtual Learning Environments. In: Student Entrepreneurship in the Social Knowledge Economy. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05567-1_5

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