Will Mobile Learning Bring a Paradigm Shift in Higher Education?
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Will Mobile Learning Bring a Paradigm Shift in Higher Education?
In the light of technology-driven social change that creates new challenges for universities, this paper considers the potential of mobile learning as a subset of e-learning to effect a paradigm shift in higher education. Universities face exponential growth in demand for higher education, significant decreases in government funding for education, a changing in understanding of the nature of kn...
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عنوان ژورنال: Education Research International
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2090-4002,2090-4010
DOI: 10.1155/2011/528495