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Learning with mobile devices - insights from a university setting in Ghana
Mobile learning is the newest and emerging technology embraced by universities and this seems to be fast establishing itself as the preferred mode of learning in many countries. However, ways in which mobile devices are used to meet learning goals seem under-researched and may require more effort fr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9493163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36164355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11300-4 |
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description | Mobile learning is the newest and emerging technology embraced by universities and this seems to be fast establishing itself as the preferred mode of learning in many countries. However, ways in which mobile devices are used to meet learning goals seem under-researched and may require more effort from researchers, especially in the context of Africa. This empirical study sought to investigate the state of mobile usage among higher education students, their experiences, and available facilitating conditions that influence mobile learning in a Ghanaian university setting. A total of 222 students (distance and vacation students) were engaged to respond to the questionnaires employed for the study. Findings revealed that mobile learning exists in a somewhat structured form as the environment showed most of the salient characteristics of mobile learning but largely remained unharnessed. To a large extent, facilitating conditions for mobile learning were available; students showed positive experiences with their mobile devices and their use in accessing learning, but largely such learning did not occur via the deployed learner management system of the institution. Implications for policy formulation for the Institution and other similar ones that are striving to incorporate mobile technology to increase access and improve the quality of instruction delivery are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-94931632022-09-22 Learning with mobile devices - insights from a university setting in Ghana Adzifome, Nixon Saba Agyei, Douglas Darko Educ Inf Technol (Dordr) Article Mobile learning is the newest and emerging technology embraced by universities and this seems to be fast establishing itself as the preferred mode of learning in many countries. However, ways in which mobile devices are used to meet learning goals seem under-researched and may require more effort from researchers, especially in the context of Africa. This empirical study sought to investigate the state of mobile usage among higher education students, their experiences, and available facilitating conditions that influence mobile learning in a Ghanaian university setting. A total of 222 students (distance and vacation students) were engaged to respond to the questionnaires employed for the study. Findings revealed that mobile learning exists in a somewhat structured form as the environment showed most of the salient characteristics of mobile learning but largely remained unharnessed. To a large extent, facilitating conditions for mobile learning were available; students showed positive experiences with their mobile devices and their use in accessing learning, but largely such learning did not occur via the deployed learner management system of the institution. Implications for policy formulation for the Institution and other similar ones that are striving to incorporate mobile technology to increase access and improve the quality of instruction delivery are discussed. Springer US 2022-09-22 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9493163/ /pubmed/36164355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11300-4 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. 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. |
spellingShingle | Article Adzifome, Nixon Saba Agyei, Douglas Darko Learning with mobile devices - insights from a university setting in Ghana |
title | Learning with mobile devices - insights from a university setting in Ghana |
title_full | Learning with mobile devices - insights from a university setting in Ghana |
title_fullStr | Learning with mobile devices - insights from a university setting in Ghana |
title_full_unstemmed | Learning with mobile devices - insights from a university setting in Ghana |
title_short | Learning with mobile devices - insights from a university setting in Ghana |
title_sort | learning with mobile devices - insights from a university setting in ghana |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9493163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36164355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11300-4 |
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