Mohtar Syahida, Jomhari Nazean, Mustafa Mumtaz Begum, Yusoff Zulkifli Mohd
Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Department of Al-Quran and Al-Hadith, Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Multimed Tools Appl. 2023;82(7):11117-11143. doi: 10.1007/s11042-022-13698-y. Epub 2022 Aug 20.
Over the past several years, mobile learning concepts have changed the way people perceived on mobile devices and technology in the learning environment. In earlier days, mobile devices were used mainly for communication purposes. Later, with many new advanced features of mobile devices, they have opened the opportunity for individuals to use them as mediated technology in learning. The traditional way of teaching and learning has shifted into a new learning dimension, where an individual can execute learning and teaching everywhere and anytime. Mobile learning has encouraged lifelong learning, in which everyone can have the opportunity to use mobile learning applications to gain knowledge. However, many of the previous studies on mobile learning have focused on the young and older adults, and less intention on middle-aged adults. In this research, it is targeted for the middle-aged adults which are described as those who are between the ages of 40 to 60. Middle-aged adults typically lead very active lives while at the same time are also very engaged in self-development programs aimed at enhancing their spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being. In this paper, we investigate the methodology used by researchers based on the research context namely, acceptance, adoption, effectiveness, impact, intention of use, readiness, and usability of mobile learning. The research context was coded to the identified methodologies found in the literature. This will help one to understand how mobile learning can be effectively implemented for middle-aged adults in future work. A systematic review was performed using EBSCO Discovery Service, Science Direct, Google Scholar, Scopus, IEEE and ACM databases to identify articles related to mobile learning adoption. A total of 65 journal articles were selected from the years 2016 to 2021 based on Kitchenham systematic review methodology. The result shows there is a need to strengthen research in the field of mobile learning with middle-aged adults.
在过去几年中，移动学习概念改变了人们在学习环境中对移动设备和技术的认知方式。在早期，移动设备主要用于通信目的。后来，随着移动设备具备许多新的先进功能，它们为个人提供了将其用作学习中介技术的机会。传统的教学方式已转变为一种新的学习维度，个人可以在任何时间、任何地点进行学习和教学。移动学习促进了终身学习，每个人都有机会使用移动学习应用程序来获取知识。然而，之前许多关于移动学习的研究都集中在年轻人和老年人身上，对中年成年人的关注较少。在本研究中，目标人群是年龄在40至60岁之间的中年成年人。中年成年人通常过着非常活跃的生活，同时也积极参与旨在提升其精神、情感和身体健康的自我发展项目。在本文中，我们根据研究背景，即移动学习的接受度、采用情况、有效性、影响、使用意图、准备情况和可用性，来研究研究人员所使用的方法。研究背景被编码为文献中发现的已识别方法。这将有助于人们了解在未来的工作中如何为中年成年人有效地实施移动学习。我们使用EBSCO发现服务、科学Direct、谷歌学术、Scopus、IEEE和ACM数据库进行了系统综述，以识别与移动学习采用相关的文章。根据Kitchenham系统综述方法，从2016年至2021年共选出65篇期刊文章。结果表明，有必要加强针对中年成年人的移动学习领域的研究。
