An exploratory study of unsupervised mobile learning in rural India

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 743-752

  Kumar, Anuj ^a   Tewari, Anuj ^b   Shroff, Geeta ^a   Chittamuru, Deepti ^c   Kam, Matthew ^a   Canny, John ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cellphone; developing countries; india; informal learning; mobile learning; out of school learning

Indexed keywords

CELLPHONE; DEVELOPING WORLD; EDUCATIONAL CONTENTS; EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; INFORMAL LEARNING; MOBILE LEARNING; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS; RURAL CHILDREN; SOCIAL CONTEXT;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 77953985600     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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