Students at university have mobile technologies. Do they do m-learning?

The fact that university students have mobile technologies does not mean they use them for their academic activities. What do students do with their mobile devices? What guidance do they receive from their teachers at university? Some answers were built from the theoretical framework. The research also involved collecting data from samples. For example, issues such as the ability to organize time and learning activities, what students know about technology, which activities they perform with it, or what they have learnt about it in the context of school education. The study is framed by the tradition that attempts to understand social phenomena. Construction data technics were selected so as to let students express their own assumptions and analyze their social practices such as semi open surveys to students, semistructured interviews to faculty and focus groups with students. All the information obtained was then triangulated. It was found that they use their mobile devices despite the absence of instructions from their teachers. Although audiovisual language has turned to be young people ' s favorite tool when they try to gather information, academics do not offer it as an option. We think that the use of this language appears as an opportunity for promoting the use of mobile technologies for academic purposes. Therefore, from this year on, we have rearranged our investigation focusing on the use of audiovisual resources. (C) 2016 Published bt Elsevier Ltd.