Learner attitudes and mobile learning adoption among community health care Trainees, Kenya

Education technologies including mobile learning (mLearning) are continually being integrated in teaching and learning. The adoption of mLearning is dependent on the end user that is the learner. This study therefore, sought to determine the relationship between the learner attitudes and adoption of mLearning among Community Health Care Trainees who were enrolled on the mHeath platform by Amref Health Africa in Kenya. The study is based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) which posits that actual system use is determined by user attitude among other factors. Three learner attitude attributes were investigated in this study. They included; attitude towards mobile learning technology , use of mobile devices for learning and learning content. The target population was 3081 learners in the two phases of the mHealth project. A sample size of 354 participants was obtained through simple random sampling procedure. A positive and significant relationship (r=.483**p < 0.01) was found between learner attitude and adoption of mLearning. It was therefore, concluded that learner attitudes play an important role in the adoption of mLearning. The study recommends that institutions aiming at implementing mLearning should focus of improving learner attitude toward using mobile technologies by designing mLearning instructional platforms that are user friendly, have comprehensive content and provide learner support services.