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Profile of Academic Use of Smartphones by Postgraduate Students in Manabí, Ecuador

Profile of Academic Use of Smartphones by Postgraduate Students in Manabí, Ecuador
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Author(s): Alexander López-Padrón (Technical University of Manabí, Ecuador), Rosabel Roig-Vila (University of Alicante, Spain)and María L. Rico-Gómez (University of Alicante, Spain)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 15
Source title: Educational Innovation to Address Complex Societal Challenges
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jacobo Roda Segarra (University of Valencia, Spain), Santiago Mengual-Andres (University of Valencia, Spain)and Antonio Cortijo Ocaña (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-3073-9.ch013

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Abstract

The digital transformation of graduate education in universities faces the challenge of adopting emerging technologies for ubiquitous learning. Therefore, the aim of this chapter was to characterise the profile of academic smartphone use perceived by postgraduate students in the field of education at the Technical University of Manabí (Ecuador). A quantitative methodological approach was adopted for the development of a descriptive research with a non-experimental cross-sectional research design, applying the “Questionnaire Smartphone and University. Student's Vision” to 207 students. As fundamental conclusions, a growing trend towards the academic use of smartphones by postgraduate students in the field of education was corroborated, highlighting their perception of the potential for communication with other students and the teacher, as well as the ubiquitous access to information that this device possesses.

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