Educational Research and Reviews

  • Abbreviation: Educ. Res. Rev.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1990-3839
  • DOI: 10.5897/ERR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2014

Full Length Research Paper

Students’ acceptance of using smartphone in a mobile learning context

Chiou Moh
  • Chiou Moh
  • Department of Information Management, Nan Kai University of Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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  •  Received: 19 April 2015
  •  Accepted: 03 July 2015
  •  Published: 23 July 2015

Abstract

Development of mobile phones provides the students a different learning choice compared to studying in a traditional classroom. This study investigated undergraduate students’ experiences with using their smartphones to receive learning contents for the improvement of their computer literacy.  Through a survey and a pretest and posttest, the findings showed mobile learners expressed positive perceptions after their experience with the m-learning and the scores on the posttest were significantly higher than the scores on the pretest.

Key words: M-learning, SMS message, computer literacy, undergraduate students.