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The Development of Mobile Learning in China’s Universities

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This chapter is mainly about research on mobile learning, understanding the stages of its development in China and describing and analyzing its definition and characteristics and the mode of mobile learning. There are both advantages and disadvantages of mobile teaching and learning. It also describes the case of a campus course selection system based on a mobile terminal platform to show the characteristics of mobile learning.

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  1. College of Information Technology, Beijing Union University, Beijing, China

    Nan Ma & Xiaofen Zhang

  2. WEMOSOFT, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

    Yu (Aimee) Zhang

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  1. CEO, WEMOSOFT, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

    Yu (Aimee) Zhang

  2. Teaching and Learning, The Ohio State University, Upper Arlington, OH, USA

    Dean Cristol

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  1. College of Education and Human Ecology, Faculty of Mathematics Education, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, Ohio, USA

    Hea-Jin Lee

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Ma, N., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y.(. (2019). The Development of Mobile Learning in China’s Universities. In: Zhang, Y., Cristol, D. (eds) Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41981-2_47-2

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    The Development of Mobile Learning in China’s Universities
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41981-2_47-2

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