Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the students' attitudes in the colleges of education at the Jordanian universities toward the use of mobile phones in education, according to the University which is attended by the student, gender, and academic level of the student. The study sample consisted of (363) students selected randomly cluster from the colleges of education at the Jordanian universities: The Hashemite University, Yarmouk and University of Jordan for the academic year 2010-2011. The instrument was a questionnaire developed by the researchers. The results showed that the percentage of students who indicated positive attitudes towards mobile phone use in university education is high. The results also showed that there were significant differences in the attitudes of students of the colleges of education in Jordanian universities towards mobile phone use in university education attributed to the variable of the university and in favor of the Hashemite University. The results showed no significant differences in students' attitudes toward mobile phone use in university education attributed to gender. Findings also revealed that there presence of statistically significant differences in students' attitudes toward mobile phone use in university education attributed to the variable of academic level in favor of master degree students.
Highlights
Contemporary communities face many challenges and their impact on the nature and the style of life and the various organizations
Mobile learning is considered a new form of distance learning which began to develop since the eighties of the twentieth century from learning by correspondence to the use of the latest media technology in education (Al – Fahad, 2009)
Item [27] which says: (I think we will be forced to use mobile phones in university education in the future.) got (69.6%) percentage.Item [31] which says: (I tend to generalize the use of mobile phones in education as it revolutionizes the world of education .) got a percentage of (67.4%)
Summary
Contemporary communities face many challenges and their impact on the nature and the style of life and the various organizations. In the light of these developments, the educators dedicated time and efforts to use the latest technology to improve the vision of the future of education and established a model of the technological applications to promote the educational attitudes to achieve effective learning which fosters creativity and inculcate the moral values and the positive trends, and to keep pace with the technological innovations and develop the educational process (Al Omari, 2008, Ascough, 2002) This change in the teaching and learning strategies led to the emergence of a new philosophy in education which was given similar names such as e-learning and distance learning in terms of dealing with the computer, the internet and the information systems. (PDAs) are laptop computer carried by hand or can be inserted in the pocket designed initially for use in organizing personal appointments, storing friends’ phone numbers and their addresses, recording private data and writing down notes during lectures or meetings and lists of tasks With time, these devices were developed into minicomputers which run text editing programs and spreadsheets. This study is an attempt to identify the attitudes of the students of the colleges of education at the Jordanian universities towards the use of the mobile phone in university education in the light of some variables
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