Akpan, Abasiama (2018)

This study on m-learning was designed to identify the extent to which distance learners in Nigeria uses mobile phone to communicate with the distance learners on administrative and academic matters and to identify the distance learners, capacity to afford mobile phones, their level of mobile phone usage and the learners, envisaged opportunities and challenges in mobile phones use for enhancing learning. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used in data collection and analysis. Results revealed that administrators rarely uses mobile phone to contact students, while mobile phones are affordable and hence accessible to the majority of learners, the type and capacity of the mobile phones owned cannot accommodate extensive pedagogical use. The efficacy of mobile technologies for pedagogical purposes is discussed in relation to the need for blenching teaching and research.