Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Using Mobile Technologies

Since the introduction of the iPad in 2010, tablet computers and other mobile devices have made broad inroads in education. Apple’s iPads, and devices made by Samsung, Microsoft, Lenovo, Xperia and others, including many smartphones, have risen beyond sim

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Derek France · W. Brian Whalley Alice Mauchline · Victoria Powell Katharine Welsh · Alex Lerczak Julian Park · Robert Bednarz

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Derek France

Katharine Welsh

Department of Geography and International Development University of Chester Chester UK

Department of Geography and International Development University of Chester Chester UK

W. Brian Whalley

Alex Lerczak

Department of Geography University of Sheffield Sheffield UK

Department of Geography and International Development University of Chester Chester UK

Alice Mauchline

School of Agriculture, Policy and Development University of Reading Reading UK

Julian Park

School of Agriculture, Policy and Development University of Reading Reading UK

Victoria Powell

Department of Geography and International Development University of Chester Chester UK

ISSN 2192-4759 SpringerBriefs in Ecology ISBN 978-3-319-20966-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20967-8

Robert Bednarz

Department of Geography Texas A&M University College Station, TX USA

ISSN 2192-4767

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ISBN 978-3-319-20967-8

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