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Mobile Phone Technology Adoption and Classroom Management in Higher Learning Institutions in Tanzania: Challenges and Implications

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dc.creator Rumanyika, Joel D.
dc.creator Mashenene, Robert Galan.
dc.date 2019-06-27T09:25:23Z
dc.date 2019-06-27T09:25:23Z
dc.date 2015-05-29
dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-05T13:34:57Z
dc.date.available 2021-05-05T13:34:57Z
dc.identifier 2304-0777
dc.identifier http://dspace.cbe.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/271
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/74333
dc.description The use of mobile phones in academic and learning processes has recently proliferated. With mobile phones students may be enabled to share tests or assignments, results, receive live comments from professors and classmates, students can source or create their own contents and send them to peer reviewers for discussion and hence evolve better results. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey at the College of Business Education (CBE) was employed in which a sample of 200 students was selected using proportionate stratified sampling technique and 30 instructors were selected using purposive sampling technique in order to collect quantitative data. Focus group discussion and observation methods were used to collect qualitative data from students and instructors. Descriptive analysis was employed to analyze quantitative data whereas content analysis was employed to analyze qualitative data. The results indicate that, the majority of students switch on their mobile phones in silent mode with the intention to use them for calling or receiving calls, for texting SMS, for interacting with social media like facebook, twitter, whatsap, youtube and for surfing information while the classroom lectures are in progress. The study recommends that the management and other policy makers should introduce measures such as strict laws and provision of education during orientation week to new students on how to manage their mobile phones during classroom lectures; an approach that may possibly help in increasing academic performance.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher College of Business Education
dc.relation Volume 36;Issue No:1
dc.subject Mobile Phones, Technology Adoption, Higher Learning Institutions, Tanzania
dc.subject Mobile Phones
dc.subject Technology Adoption
dc.subject Higher Learning Institutions
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.title Mobile Phone Technology Adoption and Classroom Management in Higher Learning Institutions in Tanzania: Challenges and Implications
dc.type Article


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