Screening of Medical Students’ Intention to Practice Mobile – Learning in Malaysia.
- Author:
Sohayla M. Attalla
1
,
2
;
Nihal A. Hanafy
3
,
4
;
Mahfuza Akter
5
;
Sakinah Ruhi
6
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: Mobile-learning, Medical students, Malaysian, MSU
- From:Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences 2020;16(Supp 7, Aug):40-45
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
- Abstract: Introduction: The twenty-first-century learning is adopting the student-centered learning techniques and the teachers are mainly facilitators to direct the process of learning and so social media and mobile applications became an important learning platform. Mobile learning (M-learning) is the practice of learning activities through a portable device such as cellular phone or a personal digital assistant. The aim of this research is to screen the medical students’ intention toward the adoption of M-learning and to determine factors affecting the intentions of the medical students to practice M-learning. Methods: A cross-sectional study among medical students was performed through a questionnaire based on the Theory of Reasoned Action and the Technology Acceptance Model. The study included 129 students in different stages of the medical study. Results: Results showed that the factors affecting the students’ inten¬tion to practice M-learning include the students’ attitude, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and availability of resources. In the current sample 82.7% of students are already using M-Learning; 41.7% are using it for assessment, 22.8% are using it for learning and 35.5% are using it for both. Conclusion: It was concluded that most medical students have higher intention to adopt M-learning and they are mostly using it for assessment purposes rather than in learning.
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