Developing a Cloud-Based Mobile Learning Adoption Model to Promote Sustainable Education

Naim Ahmad, Najmul Hoda and Fahad Alahmari
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Naim Ahmad: Department of Information Systems, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia
Najmul Hoda: Department of Business Administration, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia
Fahad Alahmari: Department of Information Systems, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-18

Abstract: Education plays a very significant role in the context of sustainability. As the world population is growing, providing education through the traditional classroom setting is not sufficient and not feasible to extend learning in professional life. Therefore, modern technology-mediated learning paradigms such as mobile learning are becoming increasingly popular. Mobile learning is said to integrate multiple contexts, learning types, mobilities and communications. As information and communications technology (ICT) plays a vital role in the delivery of mobile learning services, it is very essential to adopt sustainable IT resources to keep it viable. Cloud computing offers a range of affordable, scalable and on-demand solutions. This paper attempts to model important critical success factors (CSFs) in the area of cloud-based mobile learning using the interpretive structural modeling (ISM) technique. ISM helps in identifying the hierarchical inter-relationships between the variables of study with the help of experts in the field. Finally, Matrice d’Impacts Croisés-Multiplication Appliquée á un Classement (MICMAC) analysis is employed to classify the variables into dependent and independent variables. Management support has been identified as most rudimentary among sixteen CSFs identified through a literature review to establish a distinguished relative advantage. Further, the paper discusses the theoretical underpinning of all the constructs. This study will help organizations to implement mobile learning in sustainable ways.

Keywords: mobile learning; critical success factors (CSFs); interpretive structural modeling (ISM); Matrice d’Impacts Croisés-Multiplication Appliquée á un Classement (MICMAC); cloud-based adoption model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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