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Readiness and Perception of Pacific Students to Mobile Phones for Higher Education

The emergence and advancement of Information Communication Technologies have transformed facilitation and content delivery in higher education worldwide, the Pacific region being no exception. The extensive use of mobile phones in the Pacific, especially with the student-aged populace, is gradually...

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Autores principales: Reddy, Emmenual V., Reddy, Pritika, Sharma, Bibhya, Reddy, Karuna, Khan, Mohammed G. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8943359/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10758-022-09595-w
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description The emergence and advancement of Information Communication Technologies have transformed facilitation and content delivery in higher education worldwide, the Pacific region being no exception. The extensive use of mobile phones in the Pacific, especially with the student-aged populace, is gradually creating a niche for mobile learning in the education landscape. However, there is a growing concern on the effectiveness of this innovative intervention keeping in mind the digital intelligence of Pacific students. This paper explores the readiness and perception of the Pacific students using mobile devices for learning. An online questionnaire was used to collect data for this exploratory research. While the results revealed the student’s willingness and positive perception to leverage on mobile phones for learning in higher education, their readiness for the mobile-driven education is rather dependent on various factors which are explored in detail. The paper concludes with recommendations for the higher education institutes and education ministries in the Pacific region.
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spelling pubmed-89433592022-03-24 Readiness and Perception of Pacific Students to Mobile Phones for Higher Education Reddy, Emmenual V. Reddy, Pritika Sharma, Bibhya Reddy, Karuna Khan, Mohammed G. M. Tech Know Learn Original Research The emergence and advancement of Information Communication Technologies have transformed facilitation and content delivery in higher education worldwide, the Pacific region being no exception. The extensive use of mobile phones in the Pacific, especially with the student-aged populace, is gradually creating a niche for mobile learning in the education landscape. However, there is a growing concern on the effectiveness of this innovative intervention keeping in mind the digital intelligence of Pacific students. This paper explores the readiness and perception of the Pacific students using mobile devices for learning. An online questionnaire was used to collect data for this exploratory research. While the results revealed the student’s willingness and positive perception to leverage on mobile phones for learning in higher education, their readiness for the mobile-driven education is rather dependent on various factors which are explored in detail. The paper concludes with recommendations for the higher education institutes and education ministries in the Pacific region. Springer Netherlands 2022-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8943359/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10758-022-09595-w Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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title_short Readiness and Perception of Pacific Students to Mobile Phones for Higher Education
title_sort readiness and perception of pacific students to mobile phones for higher education
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