Impacto de las aplicaciones móviles en la educación superior: Aprendizaje en la palma de tu mano.

Abstract

One of the most outstanding changes has been the remarkable increase in the use of mobile applications for educational purposes, making them a fundamental tool for education in the current era, making known the need for access to technology and digital training, impacting the field of distance education by transforming the way students acquire knowledge.

The main objective of this study was to explain the conceptual and methodological aspects of the impact of mobile applications in education. A documentary analysis was conducted covering literature in Spanish and English published between 2018 to 2024, using various databases such as Redalyc, Dialnet, SciELO and Google Scholar. Of the 175 sources of information initially identified, 24 articles were selected following specific criteria. During the development of the review, criteria related to the impact of mobile applications in the educational field were evaluated and analyzed, with a special focus on the Mexican population and the influence of Information and Communication Technologies in the teaching-learning process, also considering the different learning styles of students. From this review, it is concluded that university students have adapted their learning styles to the use of mobile applications, which demands a teacher preparation to implement appropriate methodological strategies that effectively integrate these two aspects, thus ensuring a better professional training.