The use of mobile technologies by the portuguese academic community : an explor...

• Author(s): Bottentuit Junior, João Batista ; Coutinho, Clara Pereira
• Date: 2008
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/7817
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): M-learning; Mobile technologies; Internet; Technologies
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

As a result, studies in the field started to arise in Portugal, both at the higher education level and at the secondary education level. In order to get to know the use that the Portuguese academic community makes of the mobile technologies, either for personal or classroom use, a survey was carried out with students, professors, researchers and staff from public and private universities from north to south. The findings show that the majority of the community members have sufficient technological means to access this kind of technology. In spite of this, it is still not widely used, even though the individuals believe in the potential of its didactic implementation.