Preparing teachers for a mobile world, to improve access to education

Prospects

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-59

  Ally, Mohamed ^a   Grimus, Margarete ^b   Ebner, Martin ^b  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Access to education; Curriculum; Developing countries; Education for All; Mobile learning; Mobile technology; Quality of education; Teacher development; Teacher training; UNESCO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899623102     PISSN: 00331538     EISSN: 15739090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11125-014-9293-2     Document Type: Article

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