Title: A profile of college students' mobile learning readiness: an integrative literature review of studies from 2007 to 2021

Authors: Xiao Xu; Jessica Li

Addresses: Department of Education Policy, Organisation and Leadership, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign, 1310 S. Sixth St., Champaign, IL 61820-6925, USA ' Department of Education Policy, Organisation and Leadership, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign, 1310 S. Sixth St., Champaign, IL 61820-6925, USA

Abstract: An integrative literature review of 29 studies from the past 15 years (2007-2021) was conducted to understand and frame college students' mobile learning readiness (MLR) comprehensively. A resultant conceptual profile with theoretical and practical implications is proposed that includes 13 factors grouped into three categories: learner traits (past mobile learning experience, self-efficacy, innovativeness, optimism, intention, self-regulated learning), technology expectations (expectations of mobile learning effort, performance and relative advantages), and external influences (facilitating conditions, subjective influence, infrastructure readiness and cost). The results from the analysis originally locate college students' personality and psychological prerequisites for engaging in mobile learning; identify three relative advantages of mobile learning - flexibility, interactions, and enjoyment; and pinpoint the external determinants for examining college students' MLR including costs, public infrastructure resources associated with mobile learning, and student-peers and instructors subjective influences. Recommendations for fostering MLR are discussed as well.

Keywords: conceptual profile; mobile learning readiness; college students; integrative literature review.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMLO.2024.135120

International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, 2024 Vol.18 No.1, pp.49 - 73

Received: 13 Jan 2022
Accepted: 05 Apr 2022
Published online: 01 Dec 2023 *