A part of usability that is concerned with those features of technology that influence users’ social interaction.
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Secure Collaborative Learning Practices and Mobile Technology
Hannakaisa Isomäki (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Kirsi Päykkönen (University of Lapland, Finland), and Hanna Räisänen (University of Lapland, Finland)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch185
Abstract
During the past few years, mobile technologies have become common in everyday life. Almost everyone carry some kind of mobile technological equipment with him or her, for example a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile phone, a multimedia player, such as an iPod, or a laptop computer. The use of these equipments is not limited only to workplaces, schools or homes. Particularly useful information and communication technologies (ICTs) are in educational settings. Especially wireless networks and laptop computers may promote many useful practices of collaborative learning (Cutshall, Changchit, & Elwood, 2006; Jones, Holmfeld, & Lindström, 2006).