Campus laptops: What logistical and technological factors are perceived critical?

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 112-121

  Cutshall, Robert ^a   Changchit, Chuleeporn ^a   Elwood, Susan ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical success factors; Laptop initiative; Portable computing initiative; Technology in higher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746882077     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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