"Let my laptop lead the way": A middle eastern study

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 135-140

  Saunders, Bradley ^a   Quirke, Phil ^b  

^a ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b HIGHER COLLEGES OF TECHNOLOGY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Change management; Implementation of technology; Innovation; Laptops

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042602080     PISSN: 14364522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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