Geolearners: Location-based informal learning with mobile and social technologies

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-44

  Clough, Gill ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing; Mobile and personal devices; Social learning techniques

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; INFORMAL LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; LOCATION AWARENESS; LOCATION BASED; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PERSONAL DEVICES; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL SPACES; WEB 2.0;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79952571880     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2009.39     Document Type: Article

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