Abstract:
A smartphone (or smart phone) is a mobile phone with more advanced computing capability and
connectivity than basic feature phones. By now, smart phone has become indispensable tool for
university students as it facilitates and assists their learning process and the day to day life as well.
The development of mobile wireless technologies has generated a considerable amount of
excitement among university students and academics because it results in shifting the academic
environment from traditional settings to mobile learning (m-learning) settings. So the researcher is
going to conduct a research on “Sri Lankan University Students’ Smartphone usage to enhance
Their Educational and Skill Development and the Features (Apps) Used by them” based on five
research questions as How Smart Phone usage facilitate Sri Lankan University Students’ day to day
life? To which extent Sri Lankan University Students use Smart Phones to enhance their
Educational development? What are the features (apps) use to enhance their Educational
development? To which extent Sri Lankan University Students use Smart Phones to enhance their
skill development? & what are the apps use to enhance their skill development? And the
objectives of the study is to find out how Smart Phone usage facilitate Sri Lankan University
Students’ day to day life , to find out to which extent Sri Lankan University Students use Smart
Phones to enhance their Educational Development, to find out what are the features (apps) use to
enhance their Educational development, to find out which extent Sri Lankan University Students
use Smart Phones to enhance their skill development, & to find out what are the apps use to
enhance their skill development. To achieve these objectives, primary data will be collected through
Questionnaires and the secondary data will be collected through books, newspapers, web sources
and Publications. Three hundred (300) questionnaires will be given to randomly selected group
(20 university students from each fifteen (15) State Universities in Sri Lanka (Eastern University of
Sri Lanka, University of Colombo, University of Kelaniya, University of Peradeniya, University of
Sri Jayawardhanapura, University of Moratuwa, University of Rajarata, University of Ruhuna,
Open University of Sri Lanka, University of Visual and Performing Arts, Sabaragamuwa
University, Wayamba University, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University of Uva
Wellassa, and University of Jaffna.)
