Mobile learning platform programme and pre-service teachers’ behaviour towards mobile instruction using technology acceptance model

 

Gloria Adedoja and Daniel A. Morakinyo*

 

Review Article | Published February 2014

Journal of Educational Research and Reviews, Vol. 2(2), pp. 12-17

 

 

Department of Teacher Education, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

 

*Corresponding author. Email: kinyodan@yahoo.com.  

 

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Mobile learning has been described as the type of learning that happens across locations or that takes advantage of learning opportunities offered by portable technologies such as handheld technologies, together with wireless and mobile phone networks, to facilitate, support, enhance and extend the reach of teaching and learning. The use of these devices is gradually changing the face of instructional delivery in institutions of higher learning and the University of Ibadan is not an exception. In this study, 216 pre-service teachers of the University of Ibadan were exposed to the mobile learning platform using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The model contained the following variables: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude, peer-influence, behavioural intention to use, interest, technology self-efficacy and acceptance. The paper discussed pre and post behaviour of the undergraduate students to these variables. Findings and implications were discussed and recommendations were also made.