Attitudes and Perceptions of Medical Undergraduates Towards Mobile Learning (M-learning)

Medical students need to take and understand considerable new information during their studies especially with the need for evidence based healthcare and they should develop skills for life-long learning, keeping their knowledge updated. There has been a rapid growth in the development of new teaching methods and learning resources and considerable advances in the availability of electronic and mobile resources. Mobile technology is one of the latest extensions of technological innovations that can be integrated into medical education. Introducing M-learning may improve ability of teachers and students to adapt to the new technology as a method of teaching-learning. Specifically, through interactions with social networks and peers students are encouraged to ask questions, get feedback, conduct conversations, obtain helps, explain to others towards a specific problem based on their understanding and discuss with their peers during learning process. Hence, this study tried to understand attitudes and perceptions of medical students towards mobile learning through the use of social application for teaching-learning.