Improving mobile learning environments by applying mobile agents technology
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Availability of high bandwidth infrastructure such as GPRS, 3G and UMTS networks, advances in wireless technologies (Chen and Nahrstedt, 2000; Chiang, et al., 1998; Johnson and Maltz, 1996; Chen and Lai, 2000; Lin and Liu, 1999) and popularity of handheld devices (Microsoft, 2001) provide a new way for education by extending the learning time and space. One important emerging application of handheld devices is mobile learning (Sharples, 2000). With the new paradigm “anytime, anywhere computing”, e-learning has been extending to mobile learning (m-learning) (Lehner and Nösekabel, 2002).
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تاریخ انتشار 2004