Exploring the factors affecting mobile learning for sustainability in higher education

Abstract

Mobile learning (M‐learning) has become an important instructional technology compo-nent in higher education. The goal of this research is to determine how Malaysian university students use M‐learning in higher education. The technology acceptance model (TAM) concept was used to construct a theoretical model of M‐learning acceptability. In theory, five independent crite-ria were discovered as contributing to the actual usage of M‐learning for educational sustainability by influencing students’ attitudes towards M‐learning and their intention to use it. A questionnaire survey based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) was used as the primary data collection technique, with 200 students from UTHM University of Malaysia participating. The data were ana-lyzed using SPSS and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM‐Amos). The results of the students’ attitudes towards using M‐learning and their behavioral intentions to use M‐learning show a beneficial impact on the actual use of M‐learning as well as the long‐term sustainability of M‐learning in higher education. In addition, both male and female students were satisfied with perceived useful-ness, perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, attitude towards use, task‐technology fit, behavioral intention to use, perceived resources and actual use of mobile learning for educational sustain-ability. This study contributes to the validation of the extended TAM for M‐learning by demonstrat-ing that the predicted model predicts students’ attitudes towards using M‐learning and their behavioral intentions in Malaysian higher education.