A Study to Investigate the Opinions of Instructors on Mobile Learning (original) (raw)

The purpose of this study is to find out the opinions of instructors on mobile learning. This study has been carried out at the Near East University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, during the Fall 2009 semester. Participants in this study consisted of 40 instructors. In the research, in addition to the information obtained through literature search, a survey was carried out to learn the opinions of teachers on mobile learning. Data were collected using a questionnaire. After that SPSS 16.0 was used to analyze and interpret the collected data. Anova, frequency, paired sampled t-test and percentage methods were used during the analysis process. The results of the study indicate that it is very important for the instructors, who are the key players in education, to follow the recent advances in the field of mobile technologies very closely, and if necessary use mobile learning techniques in their own teaching.