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Is this an ipad revolution or mobile learning revolution? A global perspective across countries : ' iWorld, iLearn'
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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by Ferial Khaddage, M Shonfeld, M Yildiz, C Latteman, A Reed, E BrayThis evolution of mobile technologies and application integration in education across the world has provided a shift to a new learning environment via various mobile platforms.Educational institutions globally are missing to identify specific mobile technologies initiatives and strategies as a method to evaluate these mobile technologies and to expose both students and teachers to the potential it engenders.This panel will undertake a cross country comparison among culturally diverse countries: Turkey,UAE,USA,Lebanon,Iceland,Israel,Japan,Germany.Questions will be raised such as:Why some countries are branding mobile learning and their integration of these technologies has been made device specific, app specific and operating system specific?Is this the right approach?The digital gap between countries will be discussed?Availability access, barriers and limitations for some countries are described.We will try to figure out similarities,differences and challenges among these countries.
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Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education. International Conference (24th : 2013 : New Orleans, Louisiana)Pagination
3505 - 3513Publisher
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)Location
New Orleans, LouisianaPlace of publication
Chesapeake, Va.Start date
2013-03-25End date
2013-03-29ISBN-13
9781939797025Language
engPublication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2013, AACEEditor/Contributor(s)
R McBride, M SearsonTitle of proceedings
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