“Going mobile” in business communication at an Arabian gulf university

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Business Communication Quarterly

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Abstract

© 2014 by the Association for Business Communication. In this article, we describe a project in which undergraduate business seniors at a university in the Arabian Gulf created or evaluated the chapters of an iBook as part of their final course in business communication. Students were surveyed throughout the project, and they also participated in a focus group discussion at the end. The aim was to evaluate their experience with learning from a peer-generated iBook and to identify any motivating factors behind it. The study showed that incorporating mobile learning into the business communication classroom was highly meaningful for the students involved for a range of different reasons.

ISSN

2329-4906

Publisher

SAGE Publications Inc.

Volume

77

Issue

4

First Page

357

Last Page

375

Disciplines

Education | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Keywords

Business communication instruction, Focus group discussion, IBook, Mobile learning

Scopus ID

84947907337

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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