- / The research presented in this master thesis is based on two complementary studies conducted in
Greece, to the University of Patras, Department of Educational Science and Early Childhood
Education and in France, to the University Paris 5, Department of Humain and Social Sciences.
The Research question of our study is: How university students perceive mobile technology in
relation with the educational process and their everyday lives?
Our objectives are:
· exploring the attitudes, opinions and representations, of university students concerning
mobile technology in general and as an instrument for the educational process and
· investigating cultural differences’ influence upon mobile technology usage by university
students,
The research had four phases: literature review on mobile learning and mobile devices in order to
identify the most popular mobile devices and the devices the research community is more concerned
with: that is personal digital assistants (PDAs). This is a research study on the attitudes, opinions and
representations of second year Greek university students from the Department of Educational
Science and Early Childhood Education from the University of Patras, Greece, related to mobile
technology (PDAs).The findings of the study: PDAs not popular among Greek students, combined
with the fact that we wanted a more diverse, abundant student population, motivated us to continue
our exploration with new studies. The third phase consisted of a research study on the attitudes,
opinions and representations of the French university students from the Department of Human and
Social Sciences, Sorbonne related to mobile technology. The questionnaire allowed subjects to first
choose the main mobile device used for learning. This study has not gathered a satisfactory amount
of data, however from the gathered data we have been driven towards exploring laptops in relation
with their position in the life of Parisian students regarding learning. Also to meet time constraints
and the desired number of respondents we enlarged the target group to students from any Parisian
university.
In the fourth phase we have conducted a research study on the attitudes, opinions and
representations of the students of Parisian universities (PU) related to mobile technology: laptops.
The obtained results gave us a better view about what students want from mobile technology and
how they understand the use of it for educational purposes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:upatras.gr/oai:nemertes:10889/1802 |
| Date | 27 August 2009 |
| Creators | Stoica, Doina |
| Contributors | Καραλής, Θανάσης, Κόμης, Βασίλης, Καραλής, Θανάσης, Τσέλιος, Νικόλαος |
| Source Sets | University of Patras |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | 12 |
| Relation | Η ΒΥΠ διαθέτει αντίτυπο της διατριβής σε έντυπη μορφή στο βιβλιοστάσιο διδακτορικών διατριβών που βρίσκεται στο ισόγειο του κτιρίου της. |
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