Abstract

The aim of this study is to measures the student’s perception of using mobile for learning during COVID-19 in Bangladesh especially at the university student’s perspective. During the COVID-19 pandemic period, mobile learning may help the students to fulfill the study gap. Due to COVID-19 pandemic 213 countries, higher education has affected all over the world of June 2020. Although all of the developed countries considered mobile learning as an effective tool for education, it is not used properly in Bangladesh. This survey method conducted on 416 students from different university students in Bangladesh to understand the student’s perception of using mobile phones as a learning system. The findings of this study show that most of the students at the university level have a positive perception of m-learning. This study revealed that m-learning is very helpful to recover the study gap during this COVID-19 pandemic time and the findings of this study will help the education policymaker as well as the educational institutions to incorporate mobile learning technology for the whole system where social media may enhance the process of teaching and learning.

Highlights

  • Nowadays, Mobile learning (m-learning) has become a popular learning system for education especially higher education all over the world because of its multi-functionality characteristic and effectiveness

  • This study focuses on the uses of social media in higher education through mobile learning in Bangladesh

  • The study shows that students are very familiar with mobile learning, have a positive perception of mobile learning, and students used various social media for their study during COVID-19 pandemic time

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Introduction

Mobile learning (m-learning) has become a popular learning system for education especially higher education all over the world because of its multi-functionality characteristic and effectiveness. Bangladesh had closed all of the educational institutions from the 18th of March, 2020 which became a cause of affecting the quality of education and the student’s future life (Usak et al, 2020). For overcoming this situation, an innovative learning methodology becomes very important nowadays (Toquero, 2020) and M-learning could play a vital role for the mobile devices uses in the educational sector (Sönmez, Göçmez, Uygun, Ataizi, & Learning, 2018, Aubusson, Schuck, & Burden, 2009).

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