Professionals often find it difficult to find time to attend training. Still in its infancy in
South Africa, mobile learning (m-learning) – learning using a web-enabled mobile
electronic device such as a cell phone or tablet – holds promise as a platform to
deliver relatively convenient and inexpensive learning programmes. This intensive
study sought to identify the factors key to m-learning adoption for professional
development and how they affected m-learning in a South African context.
Accountancy practitioners and business school students were invited to participate in
this study, and human resource directors were interviewed to gauge their responses
to similar questions from a corporate point of view. The constructs of Ally and
Gardiner’s Hybrid Smart Mobile Device Acceptance Model (2012), which explored
the moderating influence of device characteristics and usage on acceptance of smart
mobile devices, was adapted to form the framework for the study. Two dimensions
were added to the constructs of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use
(relevance and tool sets) to explore what aided construction of meaning. The four top
factors – relevance, enjoyability, the perception of being in control, and motivation,
each bore a signifant relationship to the other, along with a sense of security,
organisational beliefs, and others’ beliefs. A third dimension – willpower, added to
explore hedonic motivation, brought to light issues that sapped willpower, rather than
supported it. Participants expressed a marked preference for independent rather
than social learning. While a sturdy framework for m-learning construction emerged
from this study, the findings are not generalisable. / MT2017
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/23250 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Shapiro, Theresa |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | Online resource (154 pages), application/pdf, application/pdf |
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