Mobile learning in resource-constrained environments: A case study of medical education

Medical Teacher

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Pimmer, Christoph ^a   Linxen, Sebastian ^a   Gröhbiel, Urs ^a   Jha, Anil Kumar ^b   Burg, Günter ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b NEPAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Nepal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Swisscontact SEC ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; LEARNING; MICROCOMPUTER; MOBILE PHONE; NEPAL; PROCEDURES; TEACHING HOSPITAL; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

CELL PHONES; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNET; LEARNING; NEPAL; CELLULAR PHONE;

EID: 84877021419     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.733454     Document Type: Article

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