Analysis of learning in higher education using the A6metric - a Vietnamese perspective

Abstract

This research implanted the A6metric designed by Shen and Prior (2023) to measure Vietnamese University students’ performance and the use of their smartphone learning experience. There was a total of 317 Vietnamese University students who participated in this survey during July to September 2024. The A6metric uses six independent variables of: (i)Accessibilitythat refers to the capacity of network infrastructure; (ii)Affordabilitythat refers to the user’s spending power for the cost of ownership of smartphones; (iii)Adoptabilitythat refers to the user behaviour and cognitive patterns such as how to learn and use the gadgets; (iv)Adaptabilitythat refers to the user who requires to deal with the unexpected circumstance and that which goes beyond their prior experience; (v)Acceptabilitythat refers to user acceptance of willing to use of new technology; (vi)Appropriatenessthat refers to the content of embracing socio-cultural and religious values into the design model [1, 2]. The overall results indicated that the Vietnamese participants are slightly less positive (score of 65) in their responses to the questions. It is important to note that the A6metric has an inverse positivity scaling, in that a higher overall score denotes lower positivity (a neutral response being a score of 60). It has been postulated that to some degree this relates to the more diverse cultural drivers which exist within the Vietnamese society. In particular, the Vietnamese students appear to have a higher level of distrust in smartphone technology, suffer from high cost issues (relative to income) and relatively low internet speeds. The centralised control of the communist Vietnamese Government may have played a part in some of these issues. Future research will involve extending the research to other South-East Asian countries in order to develop a solid database of cultural happiness in terms of the A6metric.

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ORCID for Stephen Prior: orcid.org/0000-0002-4993-4942

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