Mobile and web 2.0 technologies in undergraduate science: Situating learning in everyday experience

ASCILITE 2009 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1085-1095

  Waycott, Jenny ^a   Kennedy, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mobile learning; Photo sharing; Science education; Situated learning; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

MOBILE LEARNING; PHOTO SHARING; SCIENCE EDUCATION; SITUATED LEARNING; WEB 2.0;

TECHNOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84861096851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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