Effectiveness of mobile learning in distance education

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 114-124

  Yousuf, Muhammad Imran ^a  

^a PMAS ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Covering problems of distance learning; Improving distance learning; M learning; Mobile learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049036901     PISSN: 13026488     EISSN: 13026488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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