Mobile app design for teaching and learning: Educators' experiences in an online graduate course

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 117-139

  Hsu, Yu Chang ^a   Ching, Yu Hui ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

App Inventor (AI); Mobile app design; Online learning; Programming; Virtual learning community (VLC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885358339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v14i4.1542     Document Type: Article

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