Instructor Perspectives of Mobile Learning Platform: An Empirical Study

TL;DR

This empirical study investigates instructors' perspectives on mobile learning adoption, identifying key factors such as technical competence, autonomy, and blended learning as critical for successful implementation.

Contribution

It uniquely focuses on instructors' viewpoints, highlighting three main factors influencing mLearning adoption, which contrasts with prior student-centered research.

Findings

Technical competence of instructors is crucial for mLearning success.

Instructor autonomy significantly impacts mLearning adoption.

Blended learning enhances the effectiveness of mobile learning.

Abstract

Mobile learning (mLearning) is the cutting-edge learning platform to really gain traction, driven mostly by the huge uptake in smartphones and their ever increasing uses within the educational society. Education has long benefitted from the proliferation of technology; however, mLearning adoption has not proceeded at the pace one might expect. There is a disconnect between the rate of adoption of the underlying platform (smartphones) and the use of that technology within learning. The reasons behind this have been the subject of several research studies. However, previous studies have mostly focused on investigating the critical success factors (CSFs) from the student perspectives. In this research, we have carried out an extensive study of the six factors that impact the success of mLearning from instructors perspectives. The results of the research showed that three factors: technical competence of instructors, Instructors autonomy, and blended learning are the most important elements that contribute to mLearning adoption from instructors perspectives.