Learning with Smart Devices: Influence of Technostress on Undergraduate Students' Learning at University of Ilorin, Nigeria
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2020
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University of West Indies
Abstract
The wide use of smart devices among students has generated concerns in the last decades. Critical
among many others is stress accumulated from the increasing dependency on the use of smart
devices, especially among undergraduate students: “technostress.” Observations that prompted
this study hypothesized that if technostress is affecting professionals from other walks of life, can
students who are digital natives be exempted from the rave? This study adopted a descriptive
research design of the survey type, employed a validated researcher-designed questionnaire
tagged “USIToL”, with a reliability co-efficient value of 0.73 to elicit responses from the respondents.
The participants were 150 multistage sampled undergraduate students across two technology
dependent faculties at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. The findings of the study revealed that as
undergraduate students use smart devices, they become technostressed, and this is negatively
influencing their learning with the devices. Therefore, this study recommended the need to rework
how these devices can be better used to positively affect students’ learning
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Technostress, Undergraduates, Use, Smart Devices, Stress
Citation
Oladosu, K. K., Alasan, N. J., Ibironke, E. S., & Ajani, H.A. (2020) Learning with Smart Devices: Influence of Technostress on Undergraduate Students' Learning at University of Ilorin, Nigeria. International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology. (IJEDICT, 16(2),40-47. Published by University of West Indies. Available at http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewissue.php?id=58