Establishing a mobile blog system in a distance education environment

International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-165

  Laine, Teemu H ^a   Suhonen, Jarkko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

blogs; distance learning; mobile blogs; mobile learning; moblogs; ubiquitous learning; Virtual Studies of Computer Science; ViSCoS

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051571774     PISSN: 1746725X     EISSN: 17467268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMLO.2008.019766     Document Type: Article

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