Enhancing learning: A study of how mobile devices can facilitate sensemaking

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-124

  Rogers, Yvonne ^a,b   Connelly, Kay ^a   Hazlewood, William ^a   Tedesco, Lenore ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Mobile learning; Mobile technologies; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE SENSEMAKING; DIGITAL RESOURCES; ENHANCE LEARNING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; MOBILE LEARNING; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; PLANTING METHODS; SENSEMAKING; SENSEMAKING ACTIVITIES; TASK DEMAND;

AGRICULTURE; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 77952673271     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-009-0250-7     Document Type: Article

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