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Effects of Mobile Learning in Medical Education: A Counterfactual Evaluation
Laura Briz-Ponce1 & Juan Antonio Juanes-Mndez1 &
Francisco Jos Garca-Pealvo1 & Anabela Pereira2
Received: 28 February 2016 /Accepted: 31 March 2016 /Published online: 20 April 2016 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Abstract The aim of this research is to contribute to the general system education providing new insights and resources. This study performs a quasi-experimental study at University of Salamanca with 30 students to compare results between using an anatomic app for learning and the formal traditional method conducted by a teacher. The findings of the investigation suggest that the performance of learners using mobile apps is statistical better than the students using the traditional method. However, mobile devices should be considered as an additional tool to complement the teachers explanation and it is necessary to overcome different barriers and challenges to adopt these pedagogical methods at University.
Keywords Medical education . Mobile devices . mHealth . mlearning . Apps . Methodology . Smartphones . Tablets . elearning . ehealth
Introduction
Currently, undergraduate medical students are living in a Society in which the use of mobile devices is part of the daily routines. In fact, they have reached some limits that it has ever thought before. According to the last report of International Telecommunication Unit [1], it exists in the world around7.000 million of users with a mobile line. The access to these
new technologies is becoming easier, which has made most students own a mobile device. According to different surveys conducted in several Universities, there is an increasing number of students with a smartphone or a tablet. For example Jackson [2] reported in his study that 90 % of students (n = 102) owned a smartphone and 10 % of them (n = 102) owned a tablet. In addition, the Institution EDUCAUSE conducts each year a survey among undergraduate and graduate students regarding the perception of mobile learning in higher education. In its last report [3], they published that...