Research and trends in mobile learning from 1976 to 2013: A content analysis of patents in selected databases

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1006-1019

  Chiang, Feng Kuang ^a   Zhu, Gaoxia ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Cui, Zhenfeng ^a   Cai, Su ^a   Yu, Shengquan ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; LEARNING CONTENTS; MOBILE LEARNING; TARGET AUDIENCE; TWO-DIMENSION; UBIQUITOUS TECHNOLOGY;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 84931843918     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjet.12311     Document Type: Review

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