An assessment of students' mobile self-efficacy, readiness and personal innovativeness towards mobile learning in higher education in Malaysia
Mobile learning, or M-learning, has become a new educational paradigm, gaining popularity especially at institutions of higher learning in Malaysia. Using the latest technology in M-learning, students are able to choose when and where they wish to learn anything. The main aim of this study was to as...
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| description | Mobile learning, or M-learning, has become a new educational paradigm, gaining popularity especially at institutions of higher learning in Malaysia. Using the latest technology in M-learning, students are able to choose when and where they wish to learn anything. The main aim of this study was to assess learners’ self-efficacy, readiness and personal innovativeness towards Mobile learning. This study also examined the relationship between learners’ self- efficacy and readiness towards M-learning with learners’ perception of the effectiveness of M-learning. The respondents in this study were 137 trainee teachers who had enrolled in various education programs at the Faculty of Educational Studies, University Putra Malaysia. The findings of this study indicated that the respondents had a high level of personal innovativeness and mobile readiness. However, their level of mobile self-efficacy was only moderate. |
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| spelling | upm-480612016-08-04T08:37:22Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48061/ An assessment of students' mobile self-efficacy, readiness and personal innovativeness towards mobile learning in higher education in Malaysia Mahat, Jazihan Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Wong, Su Luan Mobile learning, or M-learning, has become a new educational paradigm, gaining popularity especially at institutions of higher learning in Malaysia. Using the latest technology in M-learning, students are able to choose when and where they wish to learn anything. The main aim of this study was to assess learners’ self-efficacy, readiness and personal innovativeness towards Mobile learning. This study also examined the relationship between learners’ self- efficacy and readiness towards M-learning with learners’ perception of the effectiveness of M-learning. The respondents in this study were 137 trainee teachers who had enrolled in various education programs at the Faculty of Educational Studies, University Putra Malaysia. The findings of this study indicated that the respondents had a high level of personal innovativeness and mobile readiness. However, their level of mobile self-efficacy was only moderate. Elsevier 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48061/1/48060.pdf Mahat, Jazihan and Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi and Wong, Su Luan (2012) An assessment of students' mobile self-efficacy, readiness and personal innovativeness towards mobile learning in higher education in Malaysia. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 64. pp. 284-290. ISSN 1877-0428 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812050100 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.11.033 |
| spellingShingle | Mahat, Jazihan Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Wong, Su Luan An assessment of students' mobile self-efficacy, readiness and personal innovativeness towards mobile learning in higher education in Malaysia |
| title | An assessment of students' mobile self-efficacy, readiness and personal innovativeness towards mobile learning in higher education in Malaysia |
| title_full | An assessment of students' mobile self-efficacy, readiness and personal innovativeness towards mobile learning in higher education in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | An assessment of students' mobile self-efficacy, readiness and personal innovativeness towards mobile learning in higher education in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | An assessment of students' mobile self-efficacy, readiness and personal innovativeness towards mobile learning in higher education in Malaysia |
| title_short | An assessment of students' mobile self-efficacy, readiness and personal innovativeness towards mobile learning in higher education in Malaysia |
| title_sort | assessment of students' mobile self-efficacy, readiness and personal innovativeness towards mobile learning in higher education in malaysia |
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