Enhancing student interaction in didactics teaching approaches - The right to text during class

Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Learning, ICEL

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 249-257

  Ng'ambi, Dick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Didactic teaching; Short message services SMS; Texting; Transactional distance

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; E-LEARNING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES;

ANONYMITY; INTERACTIVE MODELING; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICES; STUDENT INTERACTIONS; TEACHING APPROACHES; TEXTING; TRANSACTIONAL DISTANCE;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84878668853     PISSN: 20488882     EISSN: 20488890     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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