Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic outbreak has been a 'wake-up call' among education and higher education actors on the important role that ICTs play in the process of knowledge transmission and learning acquisition. This thesis studies the impacts of smartphone use by students as part of their training at the University of Letters and Human Sciences of Bamako (ULSHB). Using a mixed method design, qualitative and quantitative approaches, this research reveals widespread use and appropriation of smartphones by students who use them daily in their learning processes, where at the same time, there has been minimal formal pedagogic integration by faculty. While studying smartphone use by students on the university campus raised both pedagogical and socialization challenges, it is also now central to students’ learning processes inside and outside the classroom. However, adapting and implementing mobile technological tools to create deeper and more meaningful teaching and learning mechanisms, will require a political reorientation and further capacity-building by the university administration and faculty.