Abdous, M.; Camarena, M. M.; Facer, B. R. | MALL Technology: Use of Academic Podcasting in the Foreign Language Classroom | 2009 | 2007 | USA | Students | Examine the differential effectiveness of various instructional uses of podcasting in student language acquisition. |
Abu-Al-Aish, A.; Love, S.; Hunaiti, Z.; Al-masaeed, S. | Toward a sustainable deployment of m-learning in higher education | 2013 | 2013 | UK | Faculty & Students | Create a model that can be used as a road map for both pre- and post-deployment stages of m-learning. |
Al-Emran, M.; Shaalan, K. | Attitudes Towards the Use of Mobile Learning: A Case Study from the Gulf Region | 2015 | 2014 | Oman | Faculty & Students | To investigate students and faculty members’ attitudes towards the use of M-learning in higher educational institutions within two countries in the Gulf Region (Oman & UAE). |
Alden, J. | Accommodating Mobile Learning in College Programs | 2013 | 2012 | USA | Students | Examine what strategy an institution of higher learning with limited resources should use in adapting the capabilities of mobile devices to benefit its academic programs. |
Alfarani, L. A. | Influences on the Adoption of Mobile Learning in Saudi Women Teachers in Higher Education | 2015 | N/A | Saudi Arabia | Faculty | This study extends the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology in order to explore the addition of two new factors—resistance to change (RC), and perceived social culture (SC). Moreover, gender, age, and experience are hypothesized to be moderators of the effects of the four constructs (performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions), as well as the two additional constructs on current use and intention to use. |
Allagui, B. | Writing through WhatsApp: an evaluation of students writing performance | 2014 | 2013 | United Arab Emirates | Students | Examine how well students can write in a non-traditional classroom setting using WhatsApp. |
Almaiah, M. A.; Jalil, M. A. | Investigating Students’ Perceptions on Mobile Learning Services | 2014 | N/A | Malaysia | Students | To explore the students’ perceptions of the application of m-learning services in higher education environments. |
Almutairy, S. M.; Davies, T.; Dimitriadi, Y. | The Readiness of Applying m-learning among Saudi Arabian Students at Higher Education | 2015 | 2013 | UK | Students | To investigate the extent to which Saudi students understand and are familiar with mobile learning. It investigates students’ use of handheld devices and considers the daily activities for which they could be used while also evaluating m-learning in Saudi Arabia. |
Alrasheedi, M.; Capretz, L. F.; Raza, A. | Management’s Perspective on Critical Success Factors Affecting Mobile Learning in Higher Education Institutions—An Empirical Study | 2015 | N/A | Canada | Manage-ment | To present the assessment of the critical success factors of m-Learning from the perspective of university management. |
Althunibat, A. | Determining the factors influencing students’ intention to use m-learning in Jordan higher education | 2015 | N/A | Jordan | Students | To explore the factors that affect the acceptance of m-learning experience by the university students. The paper examines the existing researches conducted in this regard. The paper includes the state of higher education in the institutes, the research model, research methodology, results and findings, together with concluding the final argument in support of the m-learning environment. |
Antonenko, P. D.; Derakhshan, N.; Mendez, J. P. | Pedagogy 2 go: student and faculty perspectives on the features of mobile learning management systems | 2013 | N/A | USA | Faculty & Students | This study employed two surveys to explore the perceptions of university students and faculty regarding their patterns of use and usefulness of mobile learning management system (LMS) features. |
Bogdanović, Z.; Barać, D.; Jovanić, B.; Popović, S.; Radenković, B. | Evaluation of mobile assessment in a learning management system | 2014 | 2010 | Serbia | Students | Investigate student habits, motivations and technical possibilities in order to incorporate mobile learning activities in e-learning habits |
Boyinbode, O. K.; Ng’ambi, D. | An Interactive Mobile Lecturing Tool for Empowering Distance Learners | 2013 | 2011–2012 | South Africa | Students | To propose a mobile lecturing tool that enables users to comment on lecture vodcasts using mobile devices, and aggregated comments become an educational resource. The paper reports on the architecture of the MOBILect, its framework for student-vodcast interaction, and evaluation results. |
Boyinbode, O.; Ng’ambi, D.; Bagula, A. | An Interactive Mobile Lecturing Model: Enhancing Student Engagement with Face-To-Face Sessions | 2013 | 2011–2012 | South Africa | Students | To describe the architecture, implementation and evaluation of MOBILect; an interactive mobile lecturing tool, which seeks to enhance students’ engagement with face-to- face (f2f) sessions in higher education institutions (HEIs). |
Bradley, C.; Holley, D. | Empirical Research into Students’ Mobile Phones and their Use for Learning: | 2011 | 2009–2010 | UK | Students | Find out about higher education students’ mobile phone ownership, and the ways in which they are using their mobiles for learning. |
Brett, P. | Students’ Experiences and Engagement with SMS for Learning in Higher Education | 2011 | N/A | UK | Students | Examines students’ experiences and engagement with SMS for two different learning activities, as well as for administrative communications, across a large cohort and in many different disciplines. |
Brown, L. | Podcasting and vodcasting to BSc Geography students | 2011 | 2007–2009 | UK | Students | 1) evaluate the methods used by students to access and listen to podcasts or view vodcasts; 2) consider the extent to which students took opportunities to listen to podcasts whilst on the move as opposed to sat at a study desk in university or at home, and; 3) discuss some of the perceived benefits of podcast and vodcast resources among those studying Geography. |
Cassidy, E.D.; Colmenares, A.; Jones, G.; Manolovitz, T.; Shen, L.; Vieira, S. | Higher Education and Emerging Technologies: Shifting Trends in Student Usage | 2014 | 2013 | USA | Students | Investigate student usage of communication and educational technologies, determine preferred technologies for library services. |
Cavus, N.; Ibrahim, D. | m-Learning: An experiment in using SMS to support learning new English language words | 2009 | 2007 | Turkey | Students | Find out the potential of using mobile phones in teaching new technical English language words to 1st-year undergraduate students to support their normal English language lectures. |
Chang, Y.; Chen, S.; Yu, K.; Chu, Y.; Chien, Y. | Effects of cloud-based m-learning on student creative performance in engineering design | 2015 | N/A | Taiwan | Students | To explore the effects of cloud-based m-learning on students’ creative processes and products in engineering design. |
Chester, A.; Buntine, A.; Hammond, K.; Atkinson, L. | Podcasting in Education: Student Attitudes, Behaviour and Self-Efficacy | 2011 | N/A | Australia | Students | To describe the characteristics of podcast users, compare uptake across courses, examine preferred modes of use and satisfaction, assess the impact of podcasts on lecture attendance, and evaluate reasons for use and non-use. |
Cochrane, T.; Sissons, H.; Mulrennan, D.; Pamatatau, R. | Journalism 2.0: Exploring the Impact of Mobile and Social Media on Journalism Education | 2013 | 2006–2008 | New Zealand | Faculty & Students | Explore the impact of social media upon journalism education from two perspectives: both from the pedagogical changes Web 2.0 and mobile devices enable, and within the context of the changes in journalism that social media use are driving. |
de Waard, I.; Koutropoulos, A.; Hogue, R.J.; Abajian, S.C.; Keskin, N.Ö.; Rodriguez, C.O.; Gallagher, M.S. | Merging MOOC and mLearning for Increased Learner Interactions: | 2012 | 2011 | Belgium | Students | Explore the similarities between MOOCs and mLearning and to investigate if these emerging educational innovations have a potential to be merged into a learning environment that optimizes learner dialogue fitting informal, contextual and life- long learning. |
Dow, C.; Huang, L. | Context-aware and LBS learning systems using ubiquitous teaching assistant (u-TA): A case study for service-learning courses | 2011 | 2010–2011 | Taiwan | Students | To design a mobile system for learning. |
Economides, A.A.; Grousopoulou, A. | Mobiles in education: students’ usage, preferences and desires | 2010 | 2007–2008 | Greece | Students | To investigate the students’ use, preferences and desires regarding mobile devices in education. |
El-Hussein, M.O.M.; Cronje, J.C. | Defining Mobile Learning in the Higher Education Landscape | 2010 | N/A | South Africa | N/A | Reflect on and understand the position of mobile learning in higher education. It also hopes to develop a succinct definition applicable in the context of university and college education. |
Ernst, H.; Harrison, J.; Colthorpe, K. | Mobile learning materials as a ‘prompt’ for participation in physiology practical classes | 2012 | 2008–2010 | Australia | Students | To present evidence that 90-s video vignettes designed for delivery by way of mobile communication devices contribute to ‘engaged learning’ as measured by higher student participation and attainment in physiology practical classes. |
Ernst, H.; Harrison, J.; Griffin, D. | Anywhere, anytime, with any device: scenario-based mobile learning in biomedical sciences | 2013 | 2011–2012 | Australia | Students | - To mobilise student demand for mobile learning, as evidenced by Andrews et al. ( 2009) and Andrews ( 2010), and the leveraging of diverse, but student-owned, technology for academic benefit using the project’s design of uncomplicated, easy to navigate web-based interfaces that ensures normalised access across handsets by working within the mobile browser environment; - Recognise the near ubiquity of internet-enabled handheld devices using multiple operating platforms and systems (Johnson et al. 2012) and create active, high-impact, decision-based learning opportunities; - Facilitate deep learning through consolidated understanding and application of learning in physiology, anatomy and pharmacology. |
Ernst, H.; McGahan, W.T.; Harrison, J. | Questionable Benefit of Visual and Peer Mediated Learning on Overall Learning Outcomes of a First-Year Physiology Course: | 2015 | 2012–2013 | Australia | Students | To determine the level of increased learning that took place around chosen topics, as a result of using creative visual literacy to explain the disease in focus; and to assess the effects of the peer mediated, receptive visual component of the task, by examining learning and retention of the entire course content for the semester long health sciences course. |
Fouh, E.; Breakiron, D.A.; Hamouda, S.; Farghally, M.F.; Shaffer, C.A. | Exploring students learning behavior with an interactive etextbook in computer science courses | 2014 | 2013–2014 | USA | Students | Examine student behavior using interactive electronic textbook. |
Gikas, J.; Grant, M.M. | Mobile computing devices in higher education: Student perspectives on learning with cellphones, smartphones & social media | 2013 | N/A | USA | Faculty & Students | Explore teaching and learning when mobile computing devices, such as cellphones and smartphones, were implemented in higher education. |
Hashim, K.F.; Tan, F.B.; Rashid, A. | Adult learners’ intention to adopt mobile learning: A motivational perspective | 2015 | N/A | Malaysia | Students | To employ the uses and gratification theory to provide a better understanding of what motivates m-learning adoption in adult learners. |
Hayati, A.; Jalilifar, A.; Mashhadi, A. | Using Short Message Service (SMS) to teach English idioms to EFL students | 2013 | N/A | Iran | Students | Gauge the efficacy of three modes of instruction of English idioms, ie, Short Message Service (SMS)-based learning, contextual learning and self-study learning. |
Hong, J.-C.; Hwang, M.-Y.; Chang, H.-W.; Tai, K.-H.; Kuo, Y.-C.; Tsai, Y.-H. | Internet cognitive failure and fatigue relevant to learners’ self-regulation and learning progress in English vocabulary with a calibration scheme | 2015 | 2013 | Taiwan | Students | To determine the factors of learning effectiveness in English vocabulary learning when using a calibration scheme, this study developed a freshman English mobile device application (for iPhone 4) for students with low levels of English proficiency to practise vocabulary in the beginning of their Freshman English course. |
Huang, R.-T.; Jang, S.-J.; Machtmes, K.; Deggs, D. | Investigating the roles of perceived playfulness, resistance to change and self-management of learning in mobile English learning outcome | 2012 | 2010 | Taiwan | Students | Investigate the roles of mobile technology playfulness, users’ resistance to change and self-management of learning in mobile English learning outcomes. |
Huang, Y.-M.; Jeng, Y.-L.; Huang, T.-C. | An Educational Mobile Blogging System for Supporting Collaborative Learning | 2009 | N/A | Taiwan | Students | To investigate the learning effects of the mobile blogging system in a collaborative learning model as well as to explore the learning behavior of mobile blogger. |
Ilic, P. | The Effects of Mobile Collaborative Activities in a Second Language Course: | 2015 | 2011–2015 | Japan | Students | The purpose was to gain a deeper understanding of the processes and outcomes of the completion of collaborative learning activities through smartphones by Japanese university students in order to answer the research question: “Does the use of smartphones for homework affect the relationship between Japanese university students, their mobile phones, and their homework?” |
Ishtaiwa, F.F.; Khaled, A.; Dukmak, S. | Faculty Members’ Perceptions of the Integration, Affordances, and Challenges of Mobile Learning | 2015 | 2014–2015 | United Arab Emirates | Faculty | To qualitatively explore faculty members’ integration of m-learning strategies in their teaching as well as their perceived affordances and challenges with m-learning. |
Jaradat, M.-I. R. M. | Understanding the acceptance of mobile university services: an empirical analysis | 2010 | N/A | Jordan | Students | Explore the utilisation of mobile phone services in the educational environment and investigate students’ expectations and attitudes towards mobile university services in Jordan. |
Jordine, T.; Liang, Y.; Ihler, E. | A Mobile Device Based Serious Gaming Approach for Teaching and Learning Java Programming | 2015 | 2013 | Germany | Students | To create a mobile device based serious gaming approach along with a serious game for enhancing mobile teaching and learning for Java programming. |
Kazlauskas, A.; Robinson, K. | Podcasts are not for everyone | 2012 | N/A | Australia | Students | To plan, implement and evaluate student usage of lecture podcasts with the aim to improve both the podcasts’ and students’ abilities to benefit from them. |
Ke, F.; Hsu, Y.-C. | Mobile augmented-reality artifact creation as a component of mobile computer-supported collaborative learning | 2015 | N/A | USA | Students | To examine the effectiveness of smartphone-based collaborative learning activities, comprising augmented reality (AR) artifact creation and VoiceThread-based discussion, in reinforcing the technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) of teacher education students or pre-service teachers. |
Koole, M.; McQuilkin, J.L.; Ally, M. | Mobile Learning in Distance Education: Utility or Futility | 2010 | N/A | Canada | Students | To report the results of an innovative study exploring the usability, learning, and social interaction of mobile access to online course materials at a Canadian distance education university. |
Kranz, M.; Möller, A.; Diewald, S.; Roalter, L.; Beege, B.; Meyer, B. E.; Hendrich, A. | Mobile and contextual learning: a case study on mobile didactics in teaching and education | 2013 | N/A | Germany | Faculty & Students | To provide an up-to-date overview of the demand on mobile services in higher education and learning environments grounded on two large-scale studies. We investigated the current use and the demand of online campus services among students and academic staff at a university of technology. In a follow-up study, we focused on the demand of mobile learning applications. We identified requirements for a didactics application in higher education as an example for ubiquitous mobile learning support. We introduce the MobiDics application, describe its didactic foundation and its implementation. |
Li, S.c.; Pow, J.w.c.; Cheung, W.c. | A delineation of the cognitive processes manifested in a social annotation environment | 2015 | 2012–2013 | Hong Kong | Students | To examine how students’ learning trajectories progress in an online social annotation environment, and how their cognitive processes and levels of interaction correlate with their learning outcomes. |
Liu, Ming-Chi; Huang, Yueh-Min | Collaborative experience sharing with the support of M-Learning 2.0: a fundamental framework, a case study and research issues | 2015 | N/A | Taiwan | Students | Students should be taught system-thinking skills in order for them to gain an overall understanding of complex environmental issues. The purpose of this paper is to solve this issue by integrating social media into conventional mobile learning, using a system called M-Learning 2.0. |
Lowe, Ben; Laffey, Des | Is Twitter for the Birds?: Using Twitter to Enhance Student Learning in a Marketing Course | 2011 | N/A | UK | Students | Ascertain the degree to which Twitter has positive learning outcomes in a marketing course. |
Lowenthal, Jeffrey N. | Using Mobile Learning: Determinates Impacting Behavioral Intention | 2010 | N/A | USA | Students | The purpose of this article is twofold: first, to explore the issue of readiness of the potential learners—that is, explore the determinates of a successful m-learning intervention; and second, to examine if age or gender has any mediating impact of behavioral intention. |
Malone, Judi L. | Engaging Psychology Students at a Distance: Reflections on Australian and Canadian Experiences | 2012 | 2010 | Canada | Students | Compare the different e-learning models used to instruct Theories of Counselling and Psychotherapy, and Ethics and Current Issues in Psychology. |
May, D.; Ossenberg, P. | Organizing, performing and presenting scientific work in engineering education with the help of mobile devices | 2015 | 2014–2015 | Germany | Students | Within this project two working packages are focusing on mobile learning and on a re- search workshop for students (Fig. 1). Combining these two views was a first step into design process for the presented course. This paper will explain the underlying research concepts as well a preliminary considerations, the course design itself, the students’ feedback and planned improvements for the future. |
McClean, S.; Hagan, P.; Morgan, J. | Text Messaging for Student Communication and Voting | 2010 | 2009 | Ireland | Students | To report upon the implementation of a two-way SMS texting service within an introductory chemistry module delivered to students taking biology, biomedical science, human nutrition, food and nutrition, dietetics, pharmacy and pharmacology degrees in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Ulster. |
McKinney, D.; Dyck, J. L.; Luber, E. S. | iTunes University and the Classroom: Can Podcasts Replace Professors? | 2009 | N/A | USA | Students | To evaluate [podcasts as an] alternative to getting notes from a friend in the class for a lecture session the student missed. |
Menkhoff, T.; Chay, Y. W.; Bengtsson, M. L.; Woodard, C. J.; Gan, B. | Incorporating microblogging (“tweeting”) in higher education: Lessons learnt in a knowledge management course | 2015 | 2010–2012 | Singapore | | To share tweeting experiences made during a course on Knowledge Management taught at the Singapore Management University (SMU) in Singapore by addressing the following research questions: 1. How can social media such as twitter enrich blended learning in order to engage Gen Y students in institutions of higher learning? 2. How can twitter be effectively integrated into course designs? 3. Besides the opportunities which twitter offers for both instructors and students, what are the key challenges when it comes to implementing respective initiatives in the classroom? |
Merhi, M. I. | Factors influencing higher education students to adopt podcast: An empirical study | 2015 | N/A | USA | Students | To investigate the technological, individual, and social aspects that influence the adoption of podcast use in education using the Technology Acceptance Model and Diffusion of Innovation Theory as base models. |
Meyer, Amanda J.; Stomski, Norman J.; Innes, Stanley I.; Armson, Anthony J. | VARK learning preferences and mobile anatomy software application use in pre-clinical chiropractic students | 2015 | N/A | Australia | Students | (1) identify the preferred learning styles of pre-clinical chiropractic students at Murdoch University; (2) examine the pattern of ownership and use of mobile anatomy apps in the pre-clinical chiropractic cohort; and (3) examine the relationship between preferred learning styles and mobile anatomy app use. |
Milošević, I.; Živković, Dr.; Manasijević, D.; Nikolić, D. | The effects of the intended behavior of students in the use of M-learning | 2015 | 2014 | Serbia | Students | To present the results of research in the application of new technologies in higher education with particular emphasis on M-learning as a modern innovative approach. |
Mohammadi, H. | Social and individual antecedents of m-learning adoption in Iran | 2015 | 2014 | Iran | Students | To explore the effects of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, subjective norm, perceived image, personal innovativeness, individual mobility, absorptive capacity, and self-efficacy on user intention and satisfaction, alongside the mediating effect of usability towards use of m-learning in Iran. |
Morris, Neil P. | Podcasts and Mobile Assessment Enhance Student Learning Experience and Academic Performance | 2010 | N/A | UK | Students | To combine podcasts of lectures with mobile assessments (completed via SMS on mobile telephones) to assess the effect on examination performance. |
Muñoz-Cristóbal, Juan A.; Prieto, Luis P.; Asensio-Pérez, Juan I.; Martínez-Monés, Alejandra; Jorrín-Abellán, Iván M.; Dimitriadis, Yannis | Coming Down to Earth: Helping Teachers Use 3D Virtual Worlds in Across-Spaces Learning Situations | 2015 | 2012–2014 | Spain | Faculty & Students | To propose the architecture and prototype of a system capable of supporting teachers in creating, with a number of existing authoring tools, and deploying their own across-spaces learning situations in a variety of technological ecosystems comprising multiple learning spaces. These ecosystems may be composed of different mainstream virtual learning engines (VLEs) and Web 2.0 tools (web learning space), multiple mobile augmented reality (AR) applications (augmented physical learning space), as well as distinct 3D virtual worlds (3DVW learning space). |
Ng’ambi, D.; Lombe, A. | Using Podcasting to Facilitate Student Learning: A Constructivist Perspective | 2012 | 2008–2009 | South Africa | Students | To investigate how students enrolled on a blended postgraduate programme in Educational Technology used podcasts for reflective learning. |
Pearce, K; Scutter, S. | Podcasting of Health Sciences Lectures: Benefits for Students from a Non-English Speaking Background | 2010 | 2009 | Australia | Students | Investigate the ways in which a large group of students from a selection of health science programs utilise podcasts. |
Pegrum, M.; Bartle, E.; Longnecker, N. | Can creative podcasting promote deep learning? The use of podcasting for learning content in an undergraduate science unit | 2015 | 2009–2010 | Australia | Students | To examine the effect of the podcasting task on examination results. In addition, students’ podcasts were coded according to their contextualisation levels to determine any possible link between contextualisation and improved examination performance. |
Pimmer, C.; Linxen, S.; Gröhbiel, U. | Facebook as a learning tool? A case study on the appropriation of social network sites from mobile phones in developing countries | 2012 | 2011 | Switzerland | Faculty & Students | Shed light on aspects of technology use, such as engagement with SNSs and mobile phones, in the context of health education in developing countries. |
Pimmer, C.; Linxen, S.; Gröhbiel, U.; Jha, A. K.; Burg, G. | Mobile learning in resource-constrained environments: A case study of medical education | 2013 | 2011 | Switzer-land | Faculty & Students | This study intended to explore the use and impact of educational technology in medical education in resource-constrained environments. |
Popova, A.; Kirschner, P. A.; Joiner, R. | Effects of primer podcasts on stimulating learning from lectures: How do students engage? | 2014 | N/A | Nether-lands | Students | Examine students’ perceptions of whether and how primer (audio) podcasts and questions affected their learning from lectures. |
Rambe, P. | Social Media-Enhanced Phones for Productive Learning of South African Postgraduate Students: | 2012 | N/A | South Africa | Students | To investigate the potential of Facebook-enabled mobiles to leverage learning in informal learning environments. Third Space Theory illuminated understanding of how students draw on potentially contradictory, multiple “funds of knowledge” in their meaning making and discourses. |
Rambe, P. | Converged Social Media: Identity Management and Engagement on Facebook Mobile and Blogs | 2013 | N/A | South Africa | Students | Investigate academic and social implications of converged media on students’ lives. |
Rambe, P.; Nel, L. | Technological utopia, dystopia and ambivalence: Teaching with social media at a South African university | 2015 | 2013 | South Africa | Faculty | To draw on technological ambivalence to unravel the complex, multiple possibilities that accompany pragmatic use of technology including the double-bound relationship between human agency and educational technology. This paper therefore seeks to answer the following questions: 1. What are the general determinist (utopian and dystopian) and ambivalent views of educators about emerging technologies? 2. How do the varying perceptions of a group of Computer Science and Informatics educators at a South African university on the educational value of social media shape and inform their pragmatic instructional uses of these technologies? |
Reychav, I.; Dunaway, M.; Kobayashi, M. | Understanding mobile technology-fit behaviors outside the classroom | 2015 | 2012–2014 | Israel | Students | To understand the challenges of mobile devices for academic learning outside the classroom. |
Reychav, I.; Warkentin, M.; McHaney, R. | Exploring Effects of Media Type and Delivery Technology on Facilitating Critical Thinking Among College Students | 2015 | 2012 | Israel | Students | To investigate (a) whether technology approach (e.g., tablet vs. computer) impacts learning strategies adopted by students; and (b) whether media type (e.g., text vs. video) impacts learning strategies adopted and critical thinking approaches adopted by students. |
Rogan, F.; San Miguel, C. | Improving clinical communication of students with English as a second language (ESL) using online technology: A small scale evaluation study | 2013 | 2008–2009 | Australia | Students | Describe and evaluate an innovation using podcast and vodcast technology to assist first-year undergraduate ESL nursing students develop their clinical communication skills and practice readiness using online learning resources that blend with classroom activities and facilitate flexible and independent learning. |
Rosell-Aguilar, F. | Podcasting as a Mobile Learning Technology:: A Study of iTunes U Learners | 2015 | 2009–2011 | UK | Students | To review past and current literature on podcasting as a mobile learning technology and present a number of key ques.- tions about learners’use of podcasts, and then present the data collected from a large study into users of iTunes U resources, discuss them and present conclusions about whether the delivery of media files through such platforms can be considered a mobile technology. |
Sadik, A. | Students’ Preferences for Types of Video Lectures: Lecture Capture vs. Screencasting Recordings | 2015 | 2013–2015 | Oman | Students | To investigate students’ preferences for lecture capture and screencasting recordings as a supplement to classroom lectures, regardless of learning outcomes. |
Scott, K. M.; Nerminathan, A.; Alexander, S.; Phelps, M.; Harrison, A. | Using mobile devices for learning in clinical settings: A mixed-methods study of medical student, physician and patient perspectives | 2015 | 2012–2013 | Australia | Students | To determine use of mobile devices for learning, and beliefs and attitudes about others’ use, using a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design, conducted with medical students, physicians, patients and carers in a paediatric and an adult hospital |
Sevillano-García, M. L.; Vázquez-Cano, E. | The Impact of Digital Mobile Devices in Higher Education | 2015 | N/A | Spain | Students | To examine the acceptance, incidence, and use of digital mobile devices (tablets and smartphones) among university students in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). |
Shin, W. S.; Kang, M. | The Use of a Mobile Learning Management System at an Online University and Its Effect on Learning Satisfaction and Achievement | 2015 | 2013 | South Korea | Students | To investigate online students’ acceptance of mobile learning and its influence on learning achievement using an information system success and extended technology acceptance model (TAM). |
Soon, L. | E-Learning and M-Learning: Challenges and Barriers in Distance Education Group Assignment Collaboration | 2011 | N/A | Australia | Students | Explore the relationship between e-learning and m-learning by investigating distance education students’ use of a learning management system, “Interact,” for virtual team work. |
Strickland, K.; Gray, C.; Hill, G. | The use of podcasts to enhance research-teaching linkages in undergraduate nursing students | 2012 | 2010 | UK | Students | To report the outcomes of an evaluation of the introduction of podcasts in an undergraduate research module in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Care at Edinburgh Napier University. |
Taylor, L.; McGrath-Champ, S.; Clarkeburn, H. | Supporting student self-study: The educational design of podcasts in a collaborative learning context | 2012 | 2007–2009 | Australia | Students | This study addresses two aspects of team-based learning in an aim to better support and facilitate student learning and engagement: (1) supporting students during their pre-class preparation by providing metadata on the often-difficult required readings, and (2) offering students communication from the teacher, or ‘expert’ |
Walls, S. M.; Kucsera, J. V.; Walker, J. D.; Acee, T.W.; McVaugh, N. K.; Robinson, D. H. | Podcasting in education: Are students as ready and eager as we think they are? | 2010 | 2007 | USA | Students | Examine students’ readiness and attitudes towards repetitive and supplemental podcasting. A secondary interest is to contribute to the research debate of whether repetitive podcasting can affect student attendance. |
Wang, M.; Chen, Y.; Khan, M. J. | Mobile Cloud Learning for Higher Education: A Case Study of Moodle in the Cloud | 2014 | N/A | USA | Faculty & Students | To explore how cloud computing changes traditional mobile learning. A case study of the usage of Moodle in the cloud via mobile learning in Khalifa University was conducted. |
Wang, M.; Shen, R.; Novak, D.; Pan, X. | The impact of mobile learning on students’ learning behaviours and performance: Report from a large blended classroom | 2009 | 2007–2008 | USA | Students | To gauge learner response to the benefits and challenges of the Shanghai mLearning system towards a goal of shaping further developments. |
Wilson, M.; Bolliger, D. U. | Mobile Learning: Endless Possibilities for Allied Health Educators | 2013 | 2010–2012 | USA | N/A | To expand ideas on what mobile learning is, the possibilities that it holds to influence education both inside and outside the classroom, and how allied health educators may be able to incorporate mobile learning into their curricula. |
Vogt, M.; Schaffner, B.; Ribar, A.; Chavez, R. | The impact of podcasting on the learning and satisfaction of undergraduate nursing students | 2010 | 2007–2009 | USA | Students | Examine the impact of podcasting on nursing student learning and satisfaction. |
Vuojärvi, Hanna; Eriksson, Miikka; Ruokamo, Heli | Designing Pedagogical Models for Tourism Education: Focus on Work-Based Mobile Learning | 2012 | 2010–2011 | Finland | Students | Develop a pedagogical model that exploits mobile technologies and electronic learning environments and that is applied especially to develop decentralised tourism education in tourist destinations with extremely mobile tourism students. |
Yau, J. Y.-K.; Joy, M. | A Mobile Context-Aware Framework for Managing Learning Schedules: Data Analysis from an Interview Study | 2009 | N/A | UK | Students | Describe the design of a theoretical framework to support those students who wish to carry out their learning at different locations with variable amounts of time available to them. Our goal is to recommend (the most) appropriate activities to them, given the particular circumstances, in an attempt to maximize their learning productivity. |
Yau, J. Y.-K.; Joy, M. | An adaptive context-aware mobile learning framework based on the usability perspective | 2010 | N/A | UK | Students | Determine whether a diary approach can be used as a successful way of retrieving: 1 the user’s learning contexts; 2 which learning materials would be appropriate for which circumstances. |
Yen, J.-C.; Lee, C.-Y. | Exploring problem solving patterns and their impact on learning achievement in a blended learning environment | 2011 | 2008–2009 | Taiwan | Students | Explore problem solving patterns and their impact on learning achievement in a blended learning environment. |
Yin, K. Y.; Fitzgerald, R. | Pocket learning: a new mobile learning approach for distance learners | 2015 | 2014 | Malaysia | Students | To explore mobile learning methods that could promote distance learners’ interest and engagement. A subsequent investigation of the facilitators and distance learners’ views was conducted following the use of the mobile app. |
Young, P.; Moore, E.; Griffiths, G.; Raine, R.; Stewart, R.; Cownie, M.; Frutos-Perez, M. | Help is just a text away: The use of short message service texting to provide an additional means of support for health care students during practice placements | 2010 | 2007–2008 | UK | Students | Evaluate SMS as a means to make students feel lessa abandoned while on placement. |
Zawacki-Richter, O.; Brown, T.; Delport, R. | Mobile Learning: From Single Project Status into the Mainstream? | 2009 | 2006–2007 | Germany | Faculty | To explore mobile learning as a new field of pedagogical activity. |