Bridging outdoors and indoors educational activities in schools with the support of mobile and positioning technologies

International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 166-186

  Kurti, Arianit ^a   Spikol, Daniel ^a   Milrad, Marcelo ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

collaboration; design based research; situated learning; ubiquitous and mobile learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 51849146367     PISSN: 1746725X     EISSN: 17467268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMLO.2008.019767     Document Type: Article

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