Evaluating and ranking the learning components of entrepreneurial skills based on a hybrid approach of the M-learning technology and TOPSIS method

M-learning, a new type of e-learning, is created through the use of mobile phones connected to the internet. The present study aims to create a tool to investigate the learning of entrepreneurial skills via m-learning. An educational system to evaluate and enhance the learning of entrepreneurial skills and the creativity and innovations of the learners has to analyze the involved components. The effectiveness and importance of the components have to be determined to prioritize the components. In this research to create a tool, first a questionnaire that contained eighty-three questions was used to collect data. The statistical population included three hundred and thirty six BA students from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at the University of Isfahan. Analyses were carried out by means of descriptive statistics and inferential statistical methods, including one-variable t-test and TOPSIS technique. This survey evaluates the effects of the m-learning on the learning components of the entrepreneurial skills and identifies the most effective components as well. The results revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the m-learning, the motivation, the degree of learner´s participation, the variety of educational methods, the satisfaction and the increase in self confidence in learners of entrepreneurial skills. It also revealed that motivation, self-confidence and participation have the highest effect on learning of entrepreneurial skills.