Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate faculty members' attitudes toward mobile learning in King Saud University. The sample of the study consisted of 362 faculty members from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia during the academic year 2012-2013. A questionnaire consisted of 37 items was developed to measure the attitudes. The results showed that the attitudes of faculty members towards mobile learning are positive and there are statistically significant differences attributed to gender in favor of (female faculty members), academic rank in favor of (instructor), and academic experience in favor of (21 years of experience and more).
Highlights
In the light of developments subsequent to information age, educators seek to keep abreast of these developments through attempts and intensive efforts to transform the traditional learning environment directed by the teacher to a multiple sources learning environment, and due to the development of information and communication technology and its growing remarkable potentials, its employment in support of the educational process, and to develop long-term strategies for its integration in education, has become a fundamental goal of the contemporary educational reform.The term m-learning refers to learning using mobile technologies, including but not limited to computers, mobile players, Personal Digital Pads, MP3, laptops and mobile phones
Common feature is that all these devices are easy to use and contains the ability to communicate through the Internet or a network of mobile operator; the storage and software capacities for these devices allow reception of different programs. We may exploit these advantages by developing files containing educational programs can be read, monitored, and traced by mobile phone, it can reach a large number of students at anytime and anywhere and being able to manage part of the educational process with ease to thousands of students and trainees and the cost is very affordable for students
Table (2) shows that the attitudes of the faculty members towards m-learning for items of on the dimension of attitudes were all within the high degree, but some items were within the medium degree
Summary
In the light of developments subsequent to information age, educators seek to keep abreast of these developments through attempts and intensive efforts to transform the traditional learning environment directed by the teacher to a multiple sources learning environment, and due to the development of information and communication technology and its growing remarkable potentials, its employment in support of the educational process, and to develop long-term strategies for its integration in education, has become a fundamental goal of the contemporary educational reform.The term m-learning refers to learning using mobile technologies, including but not limited to computers, mobile players, Personal Digital Pads, MP3, laptops and mobile phones. In the light of developments subsequent to information age, educators seek to keep abreast of these developments through attempts and intensive efforts to transform the traditional learning environment directed by the teacher to a multiple sources learning environment, and due to the development of information and communication technology and its growing remarkable potentials, its employment in support of the educational process, and to develop long-term strategies for its integration in education, has become a fundamental goal of the contemporary educational reform. We may exploit these advantages by developing files containing educational programs can be read, monitored, and traced by mobile phone, it can reach a large number of students at anytime and anywhere and being able to manage part of the educational process with ease to thousands of students and trainees and the cost is very affordable for students
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