The Athabasca University mobile library project: Increasing the boundaries of anytime and anywhere learning for students

Yang Cao, Tony Tin, Rory McGreal, Mohamed Ally, Sherry Coffey

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Abstract

Athabasca University's (AU) has implemented a comprehensive mobile library (M-library) website. The M-library system can auto-detect users' devices and bring them to the appropriately formatted version (mobile or desktop) of the site. It provides opportunities to increase the boundaries of anytime and anywhere learning for students. This paper presents the M-library system design, implementation, and ongoing research on usage of the AU M-library, some of the challenges in design and deploying the M-library are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIWCMC 2006 - Proceedings of the 2006 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
Pages1289-1293
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
EventIWCMC 2006 - 2006 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: 3 Jul. 20066 Jul. 2006

Publication series

NameIWCMC 2006 - Proceedings of the 2006 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
Volume2006

Conference

ConferenceIWCMC 2006 - 2006 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period3/07/066/07/06

Keywords

  • Distance education
  • E-learning
  • M-library
  • Mobile and wireless learning

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