Challenges of mobile learning – a comparative study on use of mobile devices in six European schools: Italy, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Turkey

Monteiro, Ana Francisca; Bento, Marco; Lencastre, José Alberto; Pereira, Marcelo O.; Ramos, Maria Altina Silva; Osório, António José; Silva, Bento Duarte da

doi:10.17979/reipe.2017.0.13.3229

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“…The massive use of mobile devices has created new forms of social interaction, significantly reducing the spatial difficulties that could exist, and today people can be reached and connected anytime and anywhere (Monteiro et al, 2017). This also applies to the school environment, where students bring small devices (smartphones, tablets and ebook readers) with them, which, thanks to easy access to an Internet connection, keep them permanently connected, even during classes.…”

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The use of mobile applications in higher education classes: a comparative pilot study of the students’ perceptions and real usage

Oliveira

Pedro

Santos

2021

Smart Learn. Environ.

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This paper was developed within the scope of a PhD thesis that intends to characterize the use of mobile applications by the students of the University of Aveiro during class time. The main purpose of this paper is to present the results of an initial pilot study that aimed to fine-tune data collection methods in order to gather data that reflected the practices of the use of mobile applications by students in a higher education institution during classes. In this paper we present the context of the pilot, its technological settings, the analysed cases and the discussion and conclusions carried out to gather mobile applications usage data logs from students of an undergraduate degree on Communication Technologies.Our study gathered data from 77 participants, taking theoretical classes in the Department of Communication and Arts at the University of Aveiro. The research was based on the Grounded Theory method approach aiming to analyse the logs from the access points of the University. With the collected data, a profile of the use of mobile devices during classes was drawn.The preliminary findings suggest that the use of apps during the theoretical classes of the Department of Communication and Art is quite high and that the most used apps are Social networks like Facebook and Instagram. During this pilot the accesses during theoretical classes corresponded to approximately 11,177 accesses per student. We also concluded that the students agree that accessing applications can distract them during these classes and that they have a misperception about their use of online applications during classes, as the usage time is, in fact, more intensive than what participants reported.

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