Investigating Students' Self-Efficacy and Attitudes towards the Use of Mobile Learning

Autor/in	Yorganci, Serpil
Titel	Investigating Students' Self-Efficacy and Attitudes towards the Use of Mobile Learning
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Practice, 8 (2017) 6, S.181-185 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2222-1735
Schlagwörter	Self Efficacy; Electronic Learning; Online Courses; Vocational Education; College Students; Gender Differences; Prior Learning; Majors (Students); Self Concept Measures; Likert Scales; Teacher Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Online course; Online-Kurs; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Collegestudent; Geschlechterkonflikt; Vorkenntnisse; Likert-Skala; Lehrerverhalten; Ausland; Türkei
Abstract	Nowadays, mobile learning (m-learning) presents new and powerful opportunities for effective teaching and learning. Two significant factors that serve in understanding if students accept m-learning technology are self-efficacy and attitudes towards m-learning usage. For this purpose, the present study investigated vocational college students' self-efficacy and attitudes towards the use of m-learning. The study also examined how some core factors, including gender, prior mobile learning experience and academic major have played a role in students' self-efficacy and attitudes towards using m-learning. Researcher used two surveys that was completed by a sample of students at the Erzurum Vocational School, Ataturk University. The first scale, Computer Self-Efficacy Measure (CEM), was adapted Compeau and Higgins (1995) modified specifically in regards to mobile learning context. The second scale, m-learning attitudes scale, was adapted Al-Emran, Elsherif, and Shaalan (2015). The results revealed that students' level of self-efficacy, in general, had moderate and the majority of students had positive attitudes towards using m-learning. Statistically significant differences in students' self-efficacy towards m-learning based on prior mobile learning experience and academic major were found. Gender differences existed only in the students' attitudes, with the male students having more positive perspectives towards m-learning usage than the female students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01