Student perceptions and mobile technology adoption: implications for lower-income students shifting to digital

This paper responds to Joo et al. (Educational Technology Research and Development 64:611-630, 2016) study of the factors predicting South Korean online students’ use of a mobile learning management system (m-LMS). The findings show students’ continuous intention and their actual usage have implications for how faculty and institutions may need to promote the usefulness of mobile technology for students to accept and adopt the technology. This would be particularly relevant for lower income students with limited digital literacy skills and limited access. For many students, mobile technology is the only means through which they can persist in taking courses while institutions offer classes primarily in online modalities during the COVID-19 pandemic.