Students and tutors' attitudes towards mobile learning in the field of open learning

Joint Authors

Muhammad, Ahmad Faruq
Muhammad, al-Faruq Ahmad

Source

التعليم المفتوح : الدور، التحديات و الحلول : المنعقد في الفترة 25-27 نوفمبر 2013

Publisher

Arab Open University

Publication Date

2013-11-30

Country of Publication

Kuwait

No. of Pages

17

Main Subjects

Educational Sciences

Topics

• Teachers
• Students
• Distance education
• Attitudes
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English Abstract

Despite improvements in open learning indicators, significant challenges remain with regard to the delivery of quality open learning in Arab countries.

In the attempt to find viable solutions to these challenges, much hope has been placed in new information and communication technologies (ICTs), mobile phones being one example.

This article aimed to measure the components of students and tutors attitudes towards using mobile phone to improve the quality of open learning in the Arab countries, a study applied to the sample (176) participants (tutors – students) at open learning center- Fayoum University south Cairo.

the main results of Friedman test showed that tutors and students have not consistent attitudes towards mobile learning, it was found that the cognitive components is the first at mean rank (3.00), the second rank is behavioral or skills components at (1.59) degree, and the third is affective components at (1.41) degree, in the other hand the result of the study enables us to understand that there is no m learning application at the center by mean (1.3 from 3).

The final results of Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis test showed that there was no significance difference in the attitudes towards m learning components (ABC) Cognitive, affective, behavioral components according to the personal and organizational variables of participants.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-436058

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