Technical and infrastructural aspects of mobile learning adoption in Iran higher education

• Main Authors: Masrom, Maslin, Hakemi, Aida
• Format: Article
• Published: Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication (IIBC) 2019
• Subjects: L Education (General); LB2300 Higher Education; T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/89289/; http://dx.doi.org/10.7236/IJIBC.2019.11.1.1

Nowadays learning has developed to a new way of anywhere and anytime by using mobile devices called m-learning which can provide flexibility, independency and creativity in academic environment. Most studies about m-learning are for higher education and the most users of m-learning are higher education students. Although developed countries are using m-learning in educational sectors, most of the Middle East countries are far from m-learning, and facing number of challenges. In Iran m-learning is still in early stage of implementation in higher education and in terms of technical and infrastructural aspects there is a vast gap in compare with developed countries. Although technical and infrastructural difficulties are one of the significant aspects in implementation and integration of m-learning technologies in education, the technology will not be successful if could not adopt with users. Due to the importance of user adoption with m-learning, there are limited studies about m-learning adoption in higher education of Iran. This paper attempts to review on technical and infrastructural aspects that facilitate m-learning which have effect on adoption of Iran higher education system. The review of the trend in the literature provides a reference for higher education institutes for decision making in developing m-learning for their students.