Using mobile phones to promote lifelong learning among rural women in Southern India

Distance Education

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 193-209

  Balasubramanian, K ^a   Thamizoli, P ^b   Umar, Abdurrahman ^a   Kanwar, Asha ^a  

^a Technology and Knowledge Management   (Canada)

^b Consultant Commonwealth of Learning ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Domestication; Gender; Lifelong learning; Mobile phone

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955147214     PISSN: 01587919     EISSN: 14750198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2010.502555     Document Type: Article

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