Adoption of mobile devices in teaching: changes in teacher beliefs, attitudes and anxiety

Interactive Learning Environments

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 317-327

  Chiu, Thomas K F ^a   Churchill, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adoption of innovations; mobile learning; teacher anxiety; teacher attitudes; teacher beliefs; technology integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952648726     PISSN: 10494820     EISSN: 17445191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10494820.2015.1113709     Document Type: Article

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