Students' attitudes and perceptions towards the effectiveness of mobile learning in King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-119

  Al Fahad, Fahad N ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

M learning; Mobile technology; Student attitudes; Student perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749084652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13036521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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