Measuring the Use of Mobile Applications in Higher Education

The proliferation of use of mobile applications has increased access to information and the way we communicate and collaborate. Higher education institutions must follow this trend and cannot ignore this. They should make efforts to integrate them in their routines, namely in their students. This chapter aims to extend the understanding about the actual use of mobile applications and how users report using them, namely in the classrooms. The main objective of this literature review is to conduct a critical literature review on this use. For this purpose, an analysis of several articles in reference publishers and journals was carried out. As a result of the analysis and cross-checking of literature data, it could be concluded that the use of mobile applications that users make and the one they claim to make may differ. It is intended to understand this problematic and analyse methods that may result in more precise data in this context. These data may be used, for example, to define strategies, namely helping higher institutions defining the use of m-learning.