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This poster presents an overview of a working in progress funded collaborative action research project being conducted at a higher education institution in the United Arab Emirates. The projects investigates how to create and implement library virtual learning spaces while taking advantage of students’ mobile devices to support the activities. The poster also presents preliminary results based on cycle 1 of the action research.
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Santos, I.M., Ali, N., Westera, G., Hill, A., Jabri, M.A. (2014). Creating Library Virtual Learning Spaces Supported by Multiple Mobile Devices. In: Kalz, M., Bayyurt, Y., Specht, M. (eds) Mobile as a Mainstream – Towards Future Challenges in Mobile Learning. mLearn 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 479. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13416-1_4
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