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In the last decade, a significant number of initiatives have emerged that aim to use mobile technologies and applications for educational purposes, however, the implementation has not been fully effective due to a variety of difficulties. In this work, the attitudes of students and teachers towards the use of mobile learning in institutions of higher education were explored. Samples of students and teachers from five Cajamarca universities in Peru were taken to which surveys were validated by experts and the reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha. It was evaluated if there are statistically significant differences between the attitudes of the students in relation to age, sex, specialty and type of mobile used. Likewise, it was evaluated whether there are statistically significant differences between teachers' attitudes regarding age, sex, university experience, academic level and type of mobile used. Student t tests and a unidirectional variance analysis (ANOVA) were performed for each indicator considered. The results revealed that there are statistically significant differences between students' attitudes regarding the type of mobile device. The emergence of mobile learning technologies had a significant impact on educational technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]