Growing interest-oriented learning communities for mobile-learners

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning

Volumn 14, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 422-434

  Yang, Fan ^a   Shen, Ruimin ^a   Han, Peng ^a   Tong, Ren ^a   Hu, Zuwei ^a   Wang, Xia ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Learning community; M learning; Multi agent; Self organisation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISTANCE EDUCATION; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

LEARNING COMMUNITY; LEARNING EFFICIENCY; MOBILE-LEARNERS; SELF-ORGANIZATION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 11044221397     PISSN: 15604624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCEELL.2004.005730     Document Type: Article

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