Modern mobile technologies as the support for university students in the learning process

Students of the generation Y actively use new technologies every day, communicating mainly through social media with the help of smartphones or tablets. Thanks to the development of new media, modern students have at their disposal a wide and comprehensive range of tools to improve information, communication, education and integration of the academic community. The purpose of this article is to review the modern mobile applications that assist students in the learning process. The article is enriched with the results of the research conducted among students of the Czestochowa University of Technology, which aim was to determine their level of knowledge on mobile applications dedicated to higher education, the level of interest in them and the scope of their use by students. For this purpose, the authors conducted a survey among 181 respondents. For the research, non-random method of sampling – convenient sampling was chosen.