Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Mobile Applications: Smartphones, Skype and Texting Technologies

by Laura A. Wankel and Patrick Blessinger

Mobile technologies are reshaping and reframing the practice of teaching and learning in higher education. This volume critically examines new research on how mobile technologies and m-learning technologies like Skype are being used in higher education to increase learner engagement in an era of increasing globalization and mobility.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781905096
• ISBN13: 9781781905098
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"