Exploring the Factors Affecting Mobile Learning for Sustainability in Higher Education

Ali Mugahed Al-Rahmi, Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi, Uthman Alturki, Ahmed Aldraiweesh, Sultan Almutairy and Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan
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Ali Mugahed Al-Rahmi: Faculty of Technology Management and Business, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Johor 86400, Malaysia
Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi: Self-Development Skills Department, College of Common First Year, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Uthman Alturki: Educational Technology Department, College of Education, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Aldraiweesh: Educational Technology Department, College of Education, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Sultan Almutairy: Educational Technology Department, College of Education, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan: Electronic Business and Commerce Department, Al Ahliyya Amman University Jordan, Balqa Governorate 19328, Jordan

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 14, 1-22

Abstract: Mobile learning (M-learning) has become an important instructional technology component in higher education. The goal of this research is to determine how Malaysian university students use M-learning in higher education. The technology acceptance model (TAM) concept was used to construct a theoretical model of M-learning acceptability. In theory, five independent criteria were discovered as contributing to the actual usage of M-learning for educational sustainability by influencing students’ attitudes towards M-learning and their intention to use it. A questionnaire survey based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) was used as the primary data collection technique, with 200 students from UTHM University of Malaysia participating. The data were analyzed using SPSS and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM-Amos). The results of the students’ attitudes towards using M-learning and their behavioral intentions to use M-learning show a beneficial impact on the actual use of M-learning as well as the long-term sustainability of M-learning in higher education. In addition, both male and female students were satisfied with perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, attitude towards use, task-technology fit, behavioral intention to use, perceived resources and actual use of mobile learning for educational sustainability. This study contributes to the validation of the extended TAM for M-learning by demonstrating that the predicted model predicts students’ attitudes towards using M-learning and their behavioral intentions in Malaysian higher education.

Keywords: M-learning; PR; sustainability; TAM model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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