The Impact of Mobile Learning on Students’ Attitudes towards Learning in an Educational Technology Course

As technology has explosively and globally revolutionized the teaching and learning processes at educational institutions, enormous and innovative technological developments, along with their tools and applications, have recently invaded the education system. Using mobile learning (m-learning) emplo...

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Main Authors: Reham Salhab, Wajeeh Daher
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-07-01
Series:Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/7/7/74
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description As technology has explosively and globally revolutionized the teaching and learning processes at educational institutions, enormous and innovative technological developments, along with their tools and applications, have recently invaded the education system. Using mobile learning (m-learning) employs wireless technologies for thinking, communicating, learning, and sharing to disseminate and exchange knowledge. Consequently, assessing the learning attitudes of students toward mobile learning is crucial, as learning attitudes impact their motivation, performance, and beliefs about mobile learning. However, mobile learning seems under-researched and may require additional efforts from researchers, especially in the context of the Middle East. Hence, this study’s contribution is enhancing our knowledge about students’ attitudes towards mobile-based learning. Therefore, the study goal was to investigate m-learning’s effect on the learning attitudes among technology education students. An explanatory sequential mixed approach was utilized to examine the attitudes of 50 students who took an educational technology class. A quasi-experiment was conducted and a phenomenological approach was adopted. Data from the experimental group and the control group were gathered. Focus group discussions with three groups and 25 semi-structured interviews were performed with students who experienced m-learning in their course. ANCOVA was conducted and revealed the impact of m-learning on the attitudes and their components. An inductive and deductive content analysis was conducted. Eleven subthemes stemmed out of three main themes. These subthemes included: personalized learning, visualization of learning motivation, less learning frustration, enhancing participation, learning on familiar devices, and social interaction, which emerged from the data. The researchers recommended that higher education institutions adhere to a set of guiding principles when creating m-learning policies. Additionally, they should customize the m-learning environment with higher levels of interactivity to meet students’ needs and learning styles to improve their attitudes towards m-learning.
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spelling doaj.art-4b1ccae447fa4a3591a602d3df65df842023-11-18T20:44:56ZengMDPI AGMultimodal Technologies and Interaction2414-40882023-07-01777410.3390/mti7070074The Impact of Mobile Learning on Students’ Attitudes towards Learning in an Educational Technology CourseReham Salhab0Wajeeh Daher1Faculty of Educational Sceinces, An-Najah National University, Nablus P400, PalestineFaculty of Educational Sceinces, An-Najah National University, Nablus P400, PalestineAs technology has explosively and globally revolutionized the teaching and learning processes at educational institutions, enormous and innovative technological developments, along with their tools and applications, have recently invaded the education system. Using mobile learning (m-learning) employs wireless technologies for thinking, communicating, learning, and sharing to disseminate and exchange knowledge. Consequently, assessing the learning attitudes of students toward mobile learning is crucial, as learning attitudes impact their motivation, performance, and beliefs about mobile learning. However, mobile learning seems under-researched and may require additional efforts from researchers, especially in the context of the Middle East. Hence, this study’s contribution is enhancing our knowledge about students’ attitudes towards mobile-based learning. Therefore, the study goal was to investigate m-learning’s effect on the learning attitudes among technology education students. An explanatory sequential mixed approach was utilized to examine the attitudes of 50 students who took an educational technology class. A quasi-experiment was conducted and a phenomenological approach was adopted. Data from the experimental group and the control group were gathered. Focus group discussions with three groups and 25 semi-structured interviews were performed with students who experienced m-learning in their course. ANCOVA was conducted and revealed the impact of m-learning on the attitudes and their components. An inductive and deductive content analysis was conducted. Eleven subthemes stemmed out of three main themes. These subthemes included: personalized learning, visualization of learning motivation, less learning frustration, enhancing participation, learning on familiar devices, and social interaction, which emerged from the data. The researchers recommended that higher education institutions adhere to a set of guiding principles when creating m-learning policies. Additionally, they should customize the m-learning environment with higher levels of interactivity to meet students’ needs and learning styles to improve their attitudes towards m-learning.https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/7/7/74mobile learningmobile technologylearning attitudes
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learning attitudes
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