Mobile phones to facilitate connected social learning and work-based practices in marginalized settings. Insights from a research project in rural South Africa
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This paper outlines the findings of a research project intended to facilitate the learning of health professionals across work-based and formal learning contexts by means of mobile technology. The focus of the educational approach was on the use of digital mobile media, and particularly mobile networking technologies to support social learning practices of professionals, i.e., nurses, in marginalized settings in rural South Africa.
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Informal mobile learning in nurse education and practice in remote areas--a case study from rural South Africa.
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