Impact of mobile technology on students’ achievements in higher education

Abstract or Summary

Mobile technology is changing the way of learning and can be a powerful tool for transforming education. It can reinforce and develop relationships between teachers and students, reshape our learning and collaboration approaches, reduce long-standing differences in equity and usability, and adapt educational experiences to suit all learning objectives. While mobile technology can positively impact the pupils' lives and provide educational opportunities for the students, its adverse effects also need to be remembered. This study presents the impact of mobile technology on students' learning achievement in tertiary education. In this report, based on the literature review, mobile technology's positive and negative effects on education outcomes are also discussed. This study aims to understand mobile technology's role in the academic world and identify mobile technology's role in transforming learning and the impact of mobile technology students' achievement and motivation. The research also focused on the negative and positive effects of mobile technology on higher education and tried to examine whether mobile technology also affects students ' overall performance or not. It is crucial to understand how mobile technologies affect students' academic performance from their perspective. Work out its influences on their overall success to determine the effectiveness of implementing mobile learning in higher education and develop practical approaches for its adoption in higher education institutions. So, this study's objective is to understand mobile technology's role in the academic world and identify mobile technology's role in transforming learning and the impact of mobile technology students' achievement and motivation. All aspects related to mobile learning are examined in this research. Online Survey questions are designed for primary data collection, and peer-reviewed research articles are used as secondary data collection. TAM model is used to understand the relationship between dependent and independent variables and identify the related hypothesis. To obtain the information needed to answer the study questions, a statistically significant survey is used. With the help of Qualtrics online survey tool, 26 survey questions were created, and an online link is shared by social media platform to collect the participants' responses. Total 210 valid responses is collected and after data gathering, data is analyzed by data analysis method. According to the data analysis of this study, mobile technology has positive impact on student's motivation. Majority of a student use mobile technology to their learning activities daily. According to participants, m-learning support all their learning needs. Mobile devices are convenient for them to interact with tutors and useful to complete assessment and evaluation. Based on the findings of the study, it has been found that using mobile devices increases students’ motivation. This immediately suggests that there is a significant relationship between the use of mobile devices in higher education and the motivation of pupils to study.