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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