Exploring the Factors Affecting Mobile Learning for Sustainability in Higher Education

Ali Mugahed Al-Rahmi,Sultan Almutairy,Ahmed Aldraiweesh,Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi,Uthman Alturki,Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan

doi:10.3390/su13147893

Abstract

Mobile learning (M-learning) has become an important instructional technology component in higher education. The goal of this research is to determine how Malaysian university students use M-learning in higher education. The technology acceptance model (TAM) concept was used to construct a theoretical model of M-learning acceptability. In theory, five independent criteria were discovered as contributing to the actual usage of M-learning for educational sustainability by influencing students’ attitudes towards M-learning and their intention to use it. A questionnaire survey based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) was used as the primary data collection technique, with 200 students from UTHM University of Malaysia participating. The data were analyzed using SPSS and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM-Amos). The results of the students’ attitudes towards using M-learning and their behavioral intentions to use M-learning show a beneficial impact on the actual use of M-learning as well as the long-term sustainability of M-learning in higher education. In addition, both male and female students were satisfied with perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, attitude towards use, task-technology fit, behavioral intention to use, perceived resources and actual use of mobile learning for educational sustainability. This study contributes to the validation of the extended TAM for M-learning by demonstrating that the predicted model predicts students’ attitudes towards using M-learning and their behavioral intentions in Malaysian higher education.

Highlights

The term “sustainability” can be interpreted from many different viewpoints
In light of the literature, there are abilities that define the sustainability of M-learning: the capacity to respond to current educational needs and intent of M-learning; ability to have a high chance of being accepted by users; ability to adapt to possible changes; ability to maintain a certain condition indefinitely or make progress [3]
Because students’ self-reported usage of mobile devices for M-learning might occur both in the classroom and in their own learning contexts where access to real-time data is limited, the current study focused on their usage behavior [91]

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Introduction

The term “sustainability” can be interpreted from many different viewpoints. Sustainability is defined by [1] as “the ability to continue an activity or a certain condition indefinitely”. In light of the literature, there are abilities that define the sustainability of M-learning: the capacity to respond to current educational needs and intent of M-learning; ability to have a high chance of being accepted by users; ability to adapt to possible changes; ability to maintain a certain condition indefinitely or make progress [3]. To build these issues into thinking about innovations in mobile learning, we need a more explicit model of sustainable practices with handheld computers in institutionalized education.

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