MLearning: Pedagogical, technical and organisational hypes and realities

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-104

  Muyinda, Paul B ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; E learning; Learning; Mobile communication systems; Wireless

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947196743     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650740710742709     Document Type: Article

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