A SURVEY OF EDUCATIONAL EXPECTATIONS OF STUDENTS: MOBILE DEVICE USAGE IN

Most forms of social collaboration and interaction in education without Information and Communication Technology (ICT), occurs in the classroom or possibly in the teachers ’ office or staff common room. The proliferation of mobile devices such as Smartphones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones etc. have made an impressive global impact on pedagogy in some institutions while in other institutions of developing nations this impact hasn’t been realized yet. The non-realization of the impact of mobile devices could be as a result of the educational modes and systems being run in those particular institutions. This paper focuses on educational expectations of tertiary students regarding the use of mobile devices in two (2) Ghanaian institutions: Accra Polytechnic (AP) and Regional Maritime University (RMU). Questionnaires were administered to a number of students in these institutions to analyze their expectations and elaborate on conclusions and recommendations of students ’ educational expectations regarding mobile device usage. Through stratified sampling, out of 100 questionnaires distributed to Accra Polytechnic students, we received 80 accurate responses and out of 40 questions distributed to RMU, we received 30 accurate responses. Results of the study revealed that students educational expectations of using mobile devices is not high in the case study tertiary institutions and mobile device impac