Students' Perceptions and Experiences of Mobile Learning (A Summary)
This paper was written by Daesang Kim, Daniel Rueckert, Dong-Joong Kim, and Daeryong Seo. This paper was published in Language Learning and Technology Journal at MSU in 2013. The focus of this paper is to find out about how the students interpret the use of a mobile device to create learning experience outside the classroom. The participants in this research were graduate students and those were 53 graduate students at TESOL classes. The participants did their tasks by using some technologies application in their phones, such as YouTube and VoiceThread. The number of using the mobile phone to improve knowledge and skill increased. Besides that, the use of mobile tech (ability to review content and leave a comment) could help students by participating in the more collaborative learning environment. Based on Rogers (2003), there are five categories of adopters and those are innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards). Dugan (2005) in Technology Adop...