Title:
Mobile phone use in education and learning by faculty members of technical-engineering groups: concurrent mixed methods design
Authors:
Mehdi Mohammadi, Maryam S. Sarvestani & Sahar Nouroozi
Published:
Frontiers in Education. Article accepted on 3 February 2020.
Abstract: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2020.00016/abstract
From the abstract:
"The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Mobile Learning Acceptance among faculty members. The research methodology was a concurrent mixed methods design. Research Method in the quantitative part was descriptive-survey, and in the qualitative part a phenomenological approach was applied. In the quantitative part, the study population consisted of all female and male faculty members of technical-engineering groups at Shiraz University (N=147), where 87 participants were selected using stratified random sampling method. In the qualitative part, the participants included a small fraction of the same faculty members who had also participated in the quantitative part and were selected by purposive sampling approach with criteria technique."