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Power, Tom; Porteus, Kimberley; Ramadiro, Brian; Thsume, Nomakholwa; Makalema, Shumi and Thomas, Rhodri (2009). Is there a role for information and communications technologies (ICTs) in the education and development or disadvantaged rural communities? In: Vrasidas, Charalambos; Zembylas, Michalinos and Glass, Gene V. eds. ICT for Education, Development and Social Justice. Charlotte, NC, USA: Information Age Publishing, pp. 85–102.

Mills, Keren; Scantlebury, Non and Thomas, Rhodri (2008). Digilab: a case study in encouraging mobile learning through library innovation. In: Needham, Gill and Ally, Mohamed eds. M-libraries: libraries on the move to provide virtual access. Facet, pp. 229–242.

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FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Ferguson, Rebecca; Adams, Anne; Gaved, Mark; Mor, Yishay and Thomas, Rhodri (2013). Augmented reality and mobile learning: the state of the art. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 5(4) pp. 43–58.

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Thomas, Rhodri Curwen (2010). Mobilizing The Open University: case studies in strategic mobile development. Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology, 6(1) pp. 103–110.

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Power, Tom and Thomas, Rhodri (2007). The classroom in your pocket? Curriculum Journal, 18(3) pp. 373–388.

Thomas, Rhodri and Gipson, Zoe (2018). Online Rooms: Adobe Connect. In: AL Staff Development Event series, 15-16 Jun 2018, Cardiff.

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Thomas, Rhodri (2018). Adobe Partner Summit Customer Presentation: The Open University. In: Adobe Partner Summit 2018, 25 Apr 2018, London.

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Thomas, Rhodri and Spencer, Clare (2017). Online Rooms. In: All‐Wales AL Staff Development Event (Aling, Kim ed.), 16-17 Jun 2017, Cardiff.

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Thomas, Rhodri (2015). Mobile usage – where are we now? In: eLearning Community: Handheld and mobile devices - pedagogy and practice, 14 Apr 2015, OU Library, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes.

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Thomas, Rhodri (2014). Mobiles and Collaboration, covering OU Live and OU Anywhere. In: All Wales ALSD Conference 2014, 21-22 Jun 2014, Llandrindod Wells.

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Thomas, Rhodri (2014). Mobile Impact: 2013 and beyond. In: eLearning Community: Mobile Devices, 11 Feb 2014, OU Library, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes.

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Mwanza-Simwami, Daisy; Kirkwood, Adrian; Thomas, Rhodri; Woods, William and Cross, Simon (2013). Understanding mobile VLE usage in distance education: A pilot study. In: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2013, 24-27 Jun 2013, Victoria, Canada, 601 -610.

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FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Adams, Anne; Ferguson, Rebecca; Gaved, Mark; Mor, Yishay and Thomas, Rhodri (2012). Augmented reality and mobile learning: the state of the art. In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 955 pp. 62–69.

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Thomas, Rhodri (2012). Curriculum integration of Google Apps. In: Google Apps for Education: European Summit, 13-14 Oct 2012, International School of Prague, Czech Republic.

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Thomas, Rhodri (2012). OU Mobile VLE: extending the reach of studying through the mobile web. In: Moodle Research Conference 2012, 14-15 Sep 2012, Heraklion, Crete.

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Thomas, Rhodri (2012). Deploying Google Apps into the curriculum. In: Google Apps for EDU European User Group, 15 Jun 2012, Portsmouth.

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Thomas, Rhodri (2010). Open Mobile: institutional responses to mobile learner support. In: mLearn2010 Conference, 19-22 Oct 2010, Malta.

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Demouy, Valérie; Eardley, Annie; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes and Thomas, Rhodri (2010). Using mobile devices for listening and speaking practice in languages: the L120 mobile project. In: Eurocall 2010, Languages, Cultures and Virtual Communities, 8-11 Sep 2010, Bordeaux, France.

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Thomas, Rhodri (2009). Mobilising The Open University. In: Handheld Learning 2009, 5-7 Oct 2009, London, UK.

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Demouy, Valérie; Eardley, Annie; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes and Thomas, Rhodri (2009). The L120 Mobile Project. In: Mobile Learning and autonomy in second language acquisition (MLASLA), 17-19 Sep 2009, Toledo, Spain.

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Mills, Keren and Thomas, Rhodri (2008). Mobile Digiquest: Developing rich media reflective practitioners. In: Handheld Learning 2008, 13-15 Oct 2008, London, UK.

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Leach, Jennifer; Thomas, Rhodri; Makalima, Shumi; Porteus, Kim and Tshumi, Nomakholwa (2006). Is there a role for Information and Communications Technologies in rural schools and their communities? In: BERA, 6-9 Sep 2006, Warwick, UK.

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Power, Tom and Thomas, Rhodri (2006). mLearning: the classroom in your pocket? In: British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference, 3-6 Sep 2008, Warwick, UK.

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Leach, Jennifer; Power, Tom; Thomas, Rhodri; Fadani, Xolisa and Mbebe, Andile (2005). 4D Technologies: appropriating handheld computers to serve the needs of teachers and learners in rural African settings. In: mLearn 2005, 25-28 Oct 2005, Cape Town, South Africa.

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