Investigating the Factors Influencing Students’ Acceptance of M-Learning: A Caribbean Undergraduate Experience

• In Event: Learning on the Go: Mobile Devices in Education

Abstract

The unprecedented growth in the mobile computing market is creating opportunities within the higher education sector. However, before merging these new technologies with traditional methods, it is critical that we identify the factors that are likely to affect the success or failure of m-learning initiatives. This study uses the UTAUT model to determine the critical factors influencing undergraduate students’ acceptance of m-learning technologies. Six hundred undergraduates at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados participated in the study. The findings reveal that whereas the factors performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and facilitating conditions are significant, positive, determinants of students’ intention to adopt m-learning technologies, social influence has no significant effect in this Caribbean context.

Authors

• Mary Grace-Anne Jackman, University of the West Indies - Barbados

• Troy D. Thomas, University of Guyana

• Lenandlar Singh, University of Guyana

• Dhanaraj Thakur, University of the West Indies