The five central psychological challenges facing effective mobile learning

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 820-832

  Terras, Melody M ^a   Ramsay, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL LEARNING; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION; INTERCONNECTED NETWORK; LEARNING POTENTIAL; MOBILE LEARNING; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; WEB 2.0;

EDUCATION;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 84865502994     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2012.01362.x     Document Type: Article

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