Determinants Of Mobile Learning Adoption In The Public Universities In Saudi Arabia: The Mediating Role Of Lecturers’ Attitudes
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Date
2018-01
Authors
Saleh S, Alblowi Mansour
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
The study attempted to examine the impact of a number of antecedent variables on
the adoption of m-learning in the Saudi higher educational context represented by the
Saudi public universities. The study also attempted to examine the mediating role of
lecturers’ attitudes on the relationship between the antecedent variables and m-learning
adoption. Specifically, the study included three main sets of variables, namely the
independent variables of lecturers’ capacity, training, readiness, and university commitment,
the dependent variable of M-learning adoption, and finally the mediating
variable of attitudes towards M-learning. The study adopted a mixed design methodology
where a quantitative and qualitative methods were used to collect and analyse
the data of the questionnaires and interviews. 381 respondents constituted the sample
of this study for the quantitative part 38 lecturers constituted the qualitative sample.
SPSS was used as the data analysis tool where descriptive statistics were utilised to
describe the data while correlational analysis was utilised to determine the relationships
between the variables and test the hypotheses. The quantitative findings revealed
that the independent variables of lecturers’ capacity, training, readiness, and university
commitment were reported to be positively related to m-learning adoption and that the
construct of attitudes mediates the relationships between these independent variables
and m-learning adoption. In addition to that, the qualitative findings generated from
the analysis of the interviews reported similar results with minor differences that did
not affect the overall purpose of using the qualitative component of the study which is
the attempt to support and further elaborate on the study’s quantitative findings which
in turned added valuable elaboration on the findings generated from the questionnaires.
Discussions on the findings of the study and the links between the variables have been
provided in the last chapter. The study concluded with the number of theoretical and
practical recommendations including others for future research.
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Mobile learning adoption in the , public universities in Saudi arabia