Abstract
Mobile devices’ popularity, particularly tablets and smartphones, has increased over the last years as a result of their versatility and multifunctionality. That consequently led to a wide daily use by everyone and especially among young people. Since 2010 the sales market for mobile devices has not stopped growing. This is justified by the fact that these devices present many advantages, namely usability, portability, versatility, adaptability and an ability to customize individual experiences. In the context of the teaching-learning process, mobile devices allow overcoming the temporal and physical boundaries of the classroom, since information is omnipresent and no longer limited to a specific time and place for learning, thus promoting the mLearning. In this way it is important to analyze the use of mLearning, particularly the acceptance rate and uses of mobile technologies devices in higher education Portuguese institutions. In order to answering this issue, this paper analyzes the evolution and trends in the use of mobile technologies in higher education institutions in Portugal (North region) between 2009/2010 and 2014/2015.
Highlights
Society is undergoing a radical change in the way we communicate and act, since many sectors of activity are adopting the use of mobile technology to offer services
The main goal of this study is the evaluation of the adoption and usage trends of mobile devices in the teaching-learning processes (TLP) in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Portugal (North region) between
With the aim of identifying which devices and technological applications, and trends that most contribute to learning in the technological environment was held, given the nature of the variables involved in the study, one Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used to know how these variables are associated
Summary
Society is undergoing a radical change in the way we communicate and act, since many sectors of activity are adopting the use of mobile technology to offer services This change is only possible because the world is becoming more connected and mobile, a trend that will cause a (re)structuring of education. In 2020, digital technology will be incorporated and distributed in most objects Personal artifacts such as keys, clothes, shoes, books and newspapers will have embedded devices which can communicate with each other (Daanen and Facer, 2007). In this context, mobile technologies are being used to complete everyday tasks and to learn informally, by accessing the biggest information "library" of the world, the Internet. The key aspects of this interest is the growing importance and their use, in the day-by-day, by students in the most varied activities, and the increasing portability of these technologies, as well as the reduction in their cost and services (Vinu et al, 2011)
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