Educational content delivery: An experimental study assessing student preference for multimedia content when monetary cost is involved

Proceedings of the 2010 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 871-876

  Molnar, Andreea ^a   Muntean, Cristina Hava ^a  

^a NATIONAL COLLEGE OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adaptive e learning systems; Delivery cost; Mobile learning; Multimedia; Online learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE E-LEARNING SYSTEMS; DELIVERY COST; MOBILE LEARNING; MULTIMEDIA; ONLINE LEARNING;

COSTS; E-LEARNING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TEACHING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79851471831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISDA.2010.5687153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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