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Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning Contents: The Meta-analysis

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The literature based studies conducted earlier provide very important insights into m-learning. Due to rapid growth in technology, there is still a need to reexamine the m-learning to find the recent research trends. A meta-analysis approach has been adopted to review the literature (Palvia, 2006), thus a detailed content analysis of the articles has been made published during 2010 to 2015, which have been selected from the leading educational and technology related journals. This study tries to aggregate the subject taxonomy which includes development, management, context, and delivery of m-learning contents to mobile users. The findings of this research study provide recent and future

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