Academics’ Awareness towards Mobile Learning in Oman
Mobile Learning (M-Learning) witnessed a booming evolution contributed to the evolvement of learning within the higher educational settings. M-Learning enhances the collaboration between the educators and their students on anytime anywhere settings. Attitudes towards the utilization of M-Learning he...
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| description | Mobile Learning (M-Learning) witnessed a booming evolution contributed to the evolvement of learning within the higher educational settings. M-Learning enhances the collaboration between the educators and their students on anytime anywhere settings. Attitudes towards the utilization of M-Learning help the decision makers in building the required infrastructure. Our literature review indicated that there are very few studies that address the issue of educators’ awareness towards M-Learning which is a very significant factor for the success of smart education. In this study, a questionnaire survey has been administrated at Al Buraimi University College, Oman in order to examine the educators’ awareness and attitudes towards the utilization of M-Learning. Findings revealed that female instructors were more positive than males towards the utilization of M-Learning. Moreover, results revealed that academics who indicated that mobile technology is an effective tool in education were highly optimistic towards the utilization of M-Learning than those who were not. Nevertheless, results were not pointed any significant differences with regard to the academics’ perceptions towards the utilization of M-Learning in relation to age and academic qualifications factors, showing that M-learning can be embraced by all academics irrespective of the age and qualifications factors. |
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| spelling | UMPir171002017-03-29T02:11:33Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17100/ Academics’ Awareness towards Mobile Learning in Oman Al-Emran, Mostafa Shaalan, Khaled T Technology (General) Mobile Learning (M-Learning) witnessed a booming evolution contributed to the evolvement of learning within the higher educational settings. M-Learning enhances the collaboration between the educators and their students on anytime anywhere settings. Attitudes towards the utilization of M-Learning help the decision makers in building the required infrastructure. Our literature review indicated that there are very few studies that address the issue of educators’ awareness towards M-Learning which is a very significant factor for the success of smart education. In this study, a questionnaire survey has been administrated at Al Buraimi University College, Oman in order to examine the educators’ awareness and attitudes towards the utilization of M-Learning. Findings revealed that female instructors were more positive than males towards the utilization of M-Learning. Moreover, results revealed that academics who indicated that mobile technology is an effective tool in education were highly optimistic towards the utilization of M-Learning than those who were not. Nevertheless, results were not pointed any significant differences with regard to the academics’ perceptions towards the utilization of M-Learning in relation to age and academic qualifications factors, showing that M-learning can be embraced by all academics irrespective of the age and qualifications factors. ResearchGate 2017-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17100/1/fskkp-2017-khaleed-Academics%E2%80%99%20awareness%20towards%20mobile%20learning%20in%20Oman.pdf Al-Emran, Mostafa and Shaalan, Khaled (2017) Academics’ Awareness towards Mobile Learning in Oman. International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, 6 (1). pp. 1-7. ISSN 2210-142X. (Published) http://journals.uob.edu.bh/IJCDS/contents/volume-1082/articles/article-2649 DOI: 10.12785/ijcds/060105 |
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| title_short | Academics’ Awareness towards Mobile Learning in Oman |
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| url | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17100/1/fskkp-2017-khaleed-Academics%E2%80%99%20awareness%20towards%20mobile%20learning%20in%20Oman.pdf |
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