GENDER INFLUENCEON PERCEPTION OF COLLEGES OF EDUCATION STUDENTS’ UTILISATION OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEARNING

Abstract

Mobile technologies (MT) are devices that can be adopted for learning but are being under-utilized for educational purposes by students of higher institutions in developing countries. Therefore, there is a need to prepare College of Education (COE) students towards the utilization of MT for learning. The objectives examined gender influence on students’ perceived usefulness; perceived ease of use; attitude towards the utilization and intention to utilize MT for learning. The study adopted descriptive research of survey method. The population of the study was all college of education students in Nigeria. The respondents comprised 29,277 while from seven COE 1,060 samples were purposively and randomly selected.