Profile of Academic Use of Smartphones by Postgraduate Students in Manabí, Ecuador

Abstract

The digital transformation of graduate education in universities faces the challenge of adopting emerging technologies for ubiquitous learning. Therefore, the aim of this chapter was to characterise the profile of academic smartphone use perceived by postgraduate students in the field of education at the Technical University of Manabí (Ecuador). A quantitative methodological approach was adopted for the development of a descriptive research with a non-experimental cross-sectional research design, applying the “Questionnaire Smartphone and University. Student's Vision” to 207 students. As fundamental conclusions, a growing trend towards the academic use of smartphones by postgraduate students in the field of education was corroborated, highlighting their perception of the potential for communication with other students and the teacher, as well as the ubiquitous access to information that this device possesses.