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The course concepts introduced in this contribution were implemented in 2011 in a university in Turkey and show an approach for integrating mobile learning modules in higher education. The results of the course show the advantages as well as potential for improvement of the system and the use of it in higher education.
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Erkollar, A., Oberer, B.J. (2012). Anytime. Everywhere. Mobile Learning in Higher Education: Creating a GIS Course. In: Kim, Th., Ma, J., Fang, Wc., Zhang, Y., Cuzzocrea, A. (eds) Computer Applications for Database, Education, and Ubiquitous Computing. EL DTA 2012 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 352. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35603-2_5
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