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The Experiences Of Healthcare Professional Students About The Educational Impacts Of Mobile Learning, Hamid Reza Koohestani, Seyed Kamran Soltani Arabshahi, Fazlollah Ahmadi, Nayereh Baghcheghi
The Experiences Of Healthcare Professional Students About The Educational Impacts Of Mobile Learning, Hamid Reza Koohestani, Seyed Kamran Soltani Arabshahi, Fazlollah Ahmadi, Nayereh Baghcheghi
The Qualitative Report
The role of mobile devices in learning processes is growing rapidly and it is imperative to assess the effect of this technology. This paper explores the experience of healthcare professional students with regard to the educational impacts of mobile learning. We conducted a qualitative study using a conventional qualitative content analysis based on Graneheim and Lundman (2004) method to collect and analyze the experiences of 23 healthcare professional students. Two themes, each with subthemes, emerged from the findings: (1) perceived benefit in learning process, and (2) reflective self-assessment. The results revealed that mobile learning has a positive impact on both …