Students’ Perception of Their M-Learning Readiness

نویسندگان

  • Sulaiman Almutairy
  • Trevor Davies
  • Yota Dimitriadi
چکیده

The following pape r presents the results of a study aimed at a chieving a better u nderstanding of the psychological readiness for mobile learning (m-learning) among Saudi students, while also evaluating m-learning readiness as a whole in Saudi Arabia a topic that ha s not y et received adequate attention from researchers. Data was a cquired via a questionnaire administered to 131 Saudi students at UK universities, in July 2013. The study confirmed that s tudents are confident about u sing mobile devices in their daily lives, and that they would welcome more opportunities for mobile learning. The findings also indicated that Saudi higher education students are very familiar with, and psychologically ready for, m-learning. Keywords—M-learning, Mobile Technologies, Psychological Readiness.

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تاریخ انتشار 2015