Evaluation of mobile learning: students' experiences in a new rural-based medical school.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile learning (ML) is an emerging educational method with success dependent on many factors including the ML device, physical infrastructure and user characteristics. At Gippsland Medical School (GMS), students are given a laptop at the commencement of their four-year degree. We evaluated the educational impact of the ML program from students' perspectives.

Methods

Questionnaires and individual interviews explored students' experiences of ML. All students were invited to complete questionnaires. Convenience sampling was used for interviews. Quantitative data was entered to SPSS 17.0 and descriptive statistics computed. Free text comments from questionnaires and transcriptions of interviews were thematically analysed.

Results

Fifty students completed the q

SUBMITTER: Nestel D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2928245 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature