ABSTRACT:
Mobile technology's explosive growth has had a big impact on teaching methods, especially in higher education. Mobile learning apps provide students with flexible access to course materials and interactive learning experiences. This research paper aims at exploring students’ perception towards educational mobile apps. Data for the study have been collected from 241 students using well-structured questionnaire by adopting random sampling method. Simple percentage and Chi-Square test have been used to analyze the data. The result of the study reveals that majority of the students are female belong to the age group of up to 22 years from private institutions and they belong to science stream. The study also found that most of the students express positive attitudes toward educational mobile apps, particularly ease to use, flexibility of learning, enhances engagement of students in mobile learning and improves academic performance. Chi-square test indicates that age, gender, streams and family income are significantly associated with the level of perception towards educational mobile apps.
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P. Jayanthi. Students’ Perception towards Educational Mobile Applications. Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2026;17(2):95-8. doi: 10.52711/2321-5828.2026.00018
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P. Jayanthi. Students’ Perception towards Educational Mobile Applications. Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2026;17(2):95-8. doi: 10.52711/2321-5828.2026.00018 Available on: https://rjhssonline.com/AbstractView.aspx?PID=2026-17-2-1
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