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Smart Mobile Devices in the Higher Education: Comparative Study of FIM UHK in 2013/14 to 2015/16

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Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2016)

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This paper introduces results of two surveys focused on the use of smart mobile devices within the higher education. Data were collected by the method of questionnaire in the research sample of 205 students of the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, matriculated in IT and Management study programmes in 2013/14 and 2015/16 academic years.

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The paper is supported by the Excelence 2016 project.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Rokitanskeho 62, 50003, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

    Petra Poulova & Ivana Simonova

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  1. Wroclaw University of Technology , Wroclaw, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  2. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki, Greece

    Lazaros Iliadis

  3. Department of Forestry and Manageme, Democritus University of Thrace Department of Forestry and Manageme, Orestiada Thrace, Greece

    Yannis Manolopoulos

  4. Wrocław University of Technology , Wrocław, Poland

    Bogdan Trawiński

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Poulova, P., Simonova, I. (2016). Smart Mobile Devices in the Higher Education: Comparative Study of FIM UHK in 2013/14 to 2015/16. In: Nguyen, N., Iliadis, L., Manolopoulos, Y., Trawiński, B. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9876. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45246-3_33

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