Answers to Outstanding Questions about Japanese Student ICT Competencies and a Glance into a Mobile Future

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 603-617

  Lockley, Thomas ^a  

^a KANDA UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

CALL; Digital natives; Digitalian; ICT competencies; Japanese schools; Japanese students; Japanese university; Mobile learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885670296     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: 22437908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40299-013-0063-3     Document Type: Article

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