Contributing factors for the implementation of a mobile device mediated learning environment

Abstract

The impact that ICTs have had on social, educational and the globalized world has been immense. The easy access that some students have to mobile devices with Internet connection, the ICT endowments provided by the State, and the massive educational applications found on the Internet; makes it necessary to rethink educational spaces, because new dynamics have been generated in the teaching and learning processes, which educational institutions can no longer ignore. That is why we must train a society that not only knows how to use ICT but can obtain the best benefit from the educational field by being interested in mobile and ubiquitous learning to reduce multiple gaps (digital, gender, social, distance), to access updated knowledge opportunities. The present investigation was based on the implementation of three learning environments mediated by Mobile Devices (MD), which served to investigate factors that contribute to or hinder its implementation. This research was intended to contribute to generating theories that can be considered later when any teacher or educational institution of basic education wishes to implement the implementation of learning environments mediated using MD. This research was based on qualitative analysis, based on three learning environments with sixth-grade students, who used mobile devices (tablets and cell phones) as a means of learning inside and outside the school.