Abstract
<span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Changing habits leads to changes in ways of learning and teaching. The widespread use of smartphones appears as an opportunity and at the same time as a need for adoption in higher education institutions. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the scientific production on mobile learning in higher education in journals indexed in Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science and Elsevier’s Scopus. The sample was composed by 450 articles in total. The results obtained by bibliometric analysis showed that the publication rates continue to increase, in which journals they are published, which are the organizations and countries that publish the most, how the evolution of perspective has changed since 2010 and which are the most cited articles. We concluded that since mobile learning in higher education is a reality, there still seems to be a possibility for evolution in good quality publications.</span>
Highlights
The world has changed, habits have changed
How has the evolution of the publication of articles in quality journals related to mobile learning in higher education been?
What is the approach to m-Learning in higher education? Has it evolved over the years?
Summary
Higher education institutions must seize opportunities and at the same time adapt to the way people communicate and use technologies. Smartphones have become ubiquitous these days: people all over the world use those devices to communicate, to read and to study. With the trend of educational media becoming more increasingly mobilized, portable and individualized, the learning form is being changed dramatically. McConatha et al [3] in 2008 referred to Mobile Learning (M-Learning or MLearnig) as a relatively new tool in the pedagogical arsenal to support students and teachers as they navigate the options available in the expanding world of distance learning. M-Learning is learning accomplished with the use of small, portable computing devices. These computing devices may include: smartphones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and similar handheld devices. M-learners typically view content and/or lessons in small, manageable formats that can iJIM ‒ Vol 14, No 11, 2020
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