Kayode, Adewole ()

This paper reports the pilot study on the feasibility of mobile-learning (m-learning) in Nigeria Tertiary Educational system. It investigates the level of availability and usage of mobile devices among students in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions. University of Ilorin-a Federal University and Kwara State University were the case study. One hundred students (100); fifty (50) from each of the universities were randomly sampled for the study. Structured questionnaire was used to elicit the kind of mobile devices being use by the students and the use to which they are currently putting them. Ttest statistical inference was used to analyze the mobile and computer usage patterns among the students, the calculated mean for the mobile devices usage pattern (9.43) is greater than that of computer usage pattern (5.30). This shows that students use mobile devices to perform more functions than computer systems. This result was further analyzed using paired samples correlations which show that...