A Study on Student’s Attitudes and Driven Tools towards Mobile Learning in Higher Education with Special Reference to NCR

Abstract

Learning & education is the process by which the knowledge and skills of one are passed to the next one. Today there are two forms of education and training i.e. conventional education and online education. Mobile learning acts as an important element in the growth & development of teaching and learning methods, especially for higher education. However, the implementation of mobile learning in academics will be based on users’ acceptance of this technology. The author has done the survey of 200 students of higher education in NCR region in India to determine various uses of smart mobile phones and to measure students' attitudes and driven tools mobile learning as well as to test & examine any relationships that may exist between uses of mobile phone and academic enrichments. For the purpose, the researcher has done the quantitative analysis with the help of Correlation, regression, chi-square test, T-test, and Factor analysis as well as for extracting more meaningful results SPSS is being used. It was found that majority of the respondents used their mobile phones for learning and knowledge enrichment process. It was found that few respondents have smartphones with a number of mobile learning applications. These were able to create upload, download, and learn and share academic resources through their smartphones.