Investigation of attitude and readiness of nursing students towards mobile learning

This research is a descriptive study conducted to investigate the attitudes and readiness of nursing students towards mobile learning. The research population includes 1136 nursing students, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade nursing students studying at Ege University Faculty of Nursing in 2018-2019. The sample of the study consisted of 290 students who accepted to participate in the study and stratified sampling method was used according to the grade level. Data were collected by using "Socio-demographic Information Form", "Mobile Learning Readiness Scale" and "M-Learning Attitude Scale". Data were analysed by using IBM SPSS Statistics 25.0 package program. It was determined that 91.4% of the students are female and the mean age of the students was 21.35±1.41. The average academic average of the students was 2.96±0.33, 85.5% had smartphones and 6.2% had tablets, and the daily phone usage hours were 2.69±1.06 hours, uses the phone for most entertainment purposes (n = 256, 88.3%). The mean total score was 76.48±9.28 for the Mobile Learning Attitude Scale, 26.34±3.81 for its subscale "Advantage", 16.06±2.94 for its subscale Limitations, 18.78±2.69 for its subscale "Usefulness", 15.30±2.34 for its subscale "Learning in Freedom". The mean total score was 79.64±16.62 for the Mobile Learning Readiness Scale, 28.12±6.56 for its subscale "Self-Efficacy", 32.59±7.19 for its subscale Optimism and 18.92±4.68 for its subscale "Self Directed Learning". The results of the study, it was determined that nursing students had positive attitudes towards mobile learning and they were ready for mobile learning. It is thought that the use of mobile learning systems in theoretical and clinical nursing education will contribute to the learning method of the students. Keywords; Nursing; Mobile Learning; Technology