Information and Communications Technology Resources and Mobile Learning in times of COVID-19.

Abstract

The increase in the Use of Mobile Learning due to the technological trend and even more triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic have called into question the capabilities of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Resources that students have. The objective is to know the status (photograph) of the capabilities of these ICT Resources and validate if they are indeed related to the Use of Mobile Learning. Descriptive statistics were used for the analysis of satisfaction levels and inferential statistics for the corroboration of correlational hypotheses and levels of association between variables. We worked with data from 70 graduate students obtained through a survey consisting of a questionnaire of 40 Likert questions with values from 1 to 5. Satisfaction levels were high for ICT Resources (44.29% Satisfied and 32.86% Totally Satisfied) and the Use of Mobile Learning (42.86% Satisfied and 30.00% Totally Satisfied) demonstrating that many students had the ideal capabilities of ICT Resources that allowed them to use Mobile Learning. In turn, the results obtained were for Spearman's Rho (0.837 and p < 0.05), Chi-Square (171.287 and p < 0.05), Phi Coefficient (1.564 and p < 0.05), Cramer's V (0.782) and Contingency Coefficient (0.843), demonstrating that between ICT Resources and the Use of Mobile Learning there was a statistically significant, strong relationship, positive and with a high degree of dependence, where the Use of Mobile Learning depended on ICT Resources.