iPods as mobile multimedia learning environments: Individual differences and instructional design

Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 83-101

  Doolittle, Peter E ^a   Lusk, Danielle L ^a   Byrd, C Noel ^a   Mariano, Gina J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-062-2.ch005     Document Type: Chapter

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