Review

Mobile Learning in Turkey: Trends, Potentials and Challenges

Volume: 3 Number: 1 January 22, 2020
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Mobile Learning in Turkey: Trends, Potentials and Challenges

Abstract

Several components of learning including learners, teachers, schools, learning methodologies, learning content and evaluation criteria are affected by changing technologies. Like other technology-based learning methods, mobile learning is also a product of a period in which new technologies and education are intertwined. As new learning and technologies become more personalized, learner-centered, connected, portable and ubiquitous, skills such as cooperation, communication, critical thinking and creativity start to stand out. Mobile learning has a potential to address these skills and better cater for today’s digital native learners thanks to the aforementioned affordances. This potential of mobile learning is the starting point for this study. The aim of this study is to see the trends of mobile learning over the years and to discuss its potentials and challenges. In line with this purpose, the graduate theses published in Turkish Higher Education Council Thesis Database between 2010 and 2019 were reviewed by content analysis method. The results of the study revealed that mobile learning in graduate studies offer the potentials to positively effect on academic achievement, facilitate positive attitude towards mobile learning, increase motivation and develop positive attitude towards the course. In addition, the results also demonstrated that mobile learning is time and place independent, easy, fun and helpful for vocabulary learning and increasing interaction. However, there were also challenges reported associated with mobile learning such as technical and infrastructural problems and lack of hardware and software used in mobile leaning tools.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Studies on Education

Journal Section

Review

Publication Date

January 22, 2020

Submission Date

November 13, 2019

Acceptance Date

December 15, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 3 Number: 1

APA
Özsarı, G., & Saykılı, A. (2020). Mobile Learning in Turkey: Trends, Potentials and Challenges. Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 3(1), 108-132. https://doi.org/10.31681/jetol.670066
AMA
1.Özsarı G, Saykılı A. Mobile Learning in Turkey: Trends, Potentials and Challenges. JETOL. 2020;3(1):108-132. doi:10.31681/jetol.670066
Chicago
Özsarı, Gönül, and Abdullah Saykılı. 2020. “Mobile Learning in Turkey: Trends, Potentials and Challenges”. Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning 3 (1): 108-32. https://doi.org/10.31681/jetol.670066.
EndNote
Özsarı G, Saykılı A (January 1, 2020) Mobile Learning in Turkey: Trends, Potentials and Challenges. Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning 3 1 108–132.
IEEE
[1]G. Özsarı and A. Saykılı, “Mobile Learning in Turkey: Trends, Potentials and Challenges”, JETOL, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 108–132, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.31681/jetol.670066.
ISNAD
Özsarı, Gönül - Saykılı, Abdullah. “Mobile Learning in Turkey: Trends, Potentials and Challenges”. Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning 3/1 (January 1, 2020): 108-132. https://doi.org/10.31681/jetol.670066.
JAMA
1.Özsarı G, Saykılı A. Mobile Learning in Turkey: Trends, Potentials and Challenges. JETOL. 2020;3:108–132.
MLA
Özsarı, Gönül, and Abdullah Saykılı. “Mobile Learning in Turkey: Trends, Potentials and Challenges”. Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, vol. 3, no. 1, Jan. 2020, pp. 108-32, doi:10.31681/jetol.670066.
Vancouver
1.Gönül Özsarı, Abdullah Saykılı. Mobile Learning in Turkey: Trends, Potentials and Challenges. JETOL. 2020 Jan. 1;3(1):108-32. doi:10.31681/jetol.670066

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