The use of personal digital assistants as tools for work-based learning in clinical internships

Journal of Research on Technology in Education

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 325-341

  Akkerman, Sanne ^a   Filius, Renée ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boundary object; Internship; Mobile learning; PDA; Personal digital assistant

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012543530     PISSN: 15391523     EISSN: 19450818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15391523.2011.10782575     Document Type: Article

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