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    Adoption and Use of Smart Mobile Devices for Academic Activities Undergraduates in the University of Ilorin Library, Nigeria
    (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND COMMUNICATION (IJIPC), 2019) M. T. Bashorun; Ifeoluwa, M Awolude; F.R. Akinlabi
    This study examined the adoption and use of smart mobile devices for academic activities by undergraduates in the two selected faculties of Communication, Information Sciences, and Social Sciences in the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. A survey method was adopted for the study. The study adopted the stratified sampling technique. Respondents consisted of undergraduates who were randomly selected by the researchers. Instrument for data collection was questionnaire, tagged the Adoption and Use of Smart Mobile Devices for Academic Activities Questionnaire (AUSMDAAQ). The data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics. The findings of the study revealed that undergraduates used various smart mobile such as laptop. tablets, smartphones, e-readers, PDA to enhance learning activities. The study further revealed that students adopted and used smartphone devices at a very high level for assignments submission and other academic activities like searching online information watching academic video and digital skills acquisition. In addition. among the benefits of smart mobile applications are enhancement of learning and facilitation of access to online information. Furthermore, the study revealed that insufficient power supply, slow internet connectivity and low storage capacity of the smart mobile phone are problems associated with smart mobile devices. The study therefore, recommended that the university should provide solar enerv and power generating plant to complement the existing power supply and upgrading ofthe internet bandwidth.