- Mobile devices and mobile device applications have become an indispensable factor in our daily lives. Recent research shows that the usage of mobile devices is gradually increasing. With the increase use of mobile devices, the use of mobile device applications has been an agenda for the purpose of education. Due to the factors, which mobile devices hold, the applications downloaded for the intention to operate the process of education are increasing day by day. In this study, the applications most used by students on mobile device's will be determined and for these applications to be used in the process of education. Within the scope of this study, a questioner was applied to 72 university students using mobile devices. When the result of the questioners where taken in to account, it has been established that the university students did not use their mobile device applications for educational purposes, but mainly they used them for communication and social networking purposes. If opportunities offered by mobile device applications are used for educational purposes, a more effective education environment could be created. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license.
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