TY  - THES
TY  - BOOK
T1  - Mobile learning readiness among lecturers and medical undergraduates in Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2014
A1  - Amy Syakirah Furzane Azizan.
LA  - English
YR  - 2014
UL  - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/557929
AB  - ABSTRACT
Background: The advancement of Science and Technology flourish in line with the modernization of our new generation. For instance, mobile technology has opened and introduced a new stage of electronic learning which is now known as mobile learning. This study focuses on the mobile learning readiness based on the four aspects which are basic readiness. skills readiness, budget readiness and psychological readiness. Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine the mobile learning readiness among lecturers and medical undergraduates in Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia  in the year 2014 Methodology: This is a cross sectional study from April 2014 to August 2014 involving the lecturers and medical undergraduates from Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Questionnaire containing a series of questions about readiness based on the four aspects mentioned earlier were distributed to medical undergraduates. Also, online questionnaires were emailed to lecturers. The findings from this study will further enhance a more effective and approachable strategy for the adaptation and application of mobile learning in teaching and learning process. In this study, we associated socio demographic profile of the lecturers and medical undergraduates with the readiness towards mobile learning. The data was analysed using chi-square test. Results: Data revealed that only 22.16% of medical undergraduates are ready for mobile learning. As for lecturers, 8.9% of them are fully ready for mobile learning. For medical undergraduates. the finding shows that there is significant association between mobile learning readiness with age and phases of medical programmes (p-value less than 0.05). For lecturers. there is no significant association between mobile learning readiness and socio demographic profile since the sample size is not enough. Conclusion: The findings indicated that in order to adapt and implement mobile learning in education specifically among lecturers and students. many efforts and the four readiness aspects should be highlighted and improved. There is no significant association between socio demographic profiles of lecturers and medical undergraduates with mobile learning readiness. However, medical undergraduates clinical/preclinical study phase showed significant result which very much means that the study phases can be associated with mobile learning readiness.


Keywords: mobile learning readiness, basic readiness, skills readiness, budget readiness, psychological readiness
NO  - A second year (Package 11) project dissertation.
CN  - FPSK1 2014 26
ER  -