Authors : Pansak Thaiait, Kalayanee Jitgarun and Weerachai Chaokumnerd
Abstract: Mobile learning (M-learning) is a new, exciting and promising field. M-learning likely to provide more information, rather than knowledge, misses the mark. Information and knowledge are not identical, however there is an intimate relationship between user and innovation adoption perspective. Thus, this research was to study and examine an innovation adoption perspective from engineering students’ intention of M-learning degrees. Given the development in M-learning and its potential impact on how learning takes place, this research emphasizes M-learning represents adoption of an innovation in engineering education. It therefore, examined M-learning adoption via Rogers’s Relational Model of perceived innovation trait. A questionnaire survey was developed to collect data from a sample of 401 Thai engineering students. The sample was obtained by using the Random Sampling Method. Research methods were applied to collect quantitative data using interviews and questionnaires for participant and non-participant observations. The research tools were checking via Back Translation Technique. The analysis had shown that the perspective of relative advantage, the mean was 4.21 with SD = 0.67. The perspective of compatibility, the mean was 4.00 with SD = 0.74. The perspective of complexity, the mean was 3.91 with SD = 0.75. The perspective of trialability, the mean was 3.76 with SD = 0.77. The perspective of observability, the mean was 3.81 with SD = 0.73. Finally, we can be concluded that this study can help for creating a society of learning, improve the adoption potential and a wide sharing of knowledge.
Pansak Thaiait, Kalayanee Jitgarun and Weerachai Chaokumnerd, 2012. The Innovation Adoption Perspective in M-learning for Engineering Education. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 7: 23-30.