The effectiveness of smart phone applications to learn the practical aspects of the Dewey Decimal Classification: Experimental Study on the Students of the Library Department, Kafr El-Sheikh University | ||||
International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||||
Article 5, Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2018, Page 133-166 PDF (1.07 MB) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2018.69435 | ||||
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Author | ||||
Emad Abdel Sattar Taha Zedan* | ||||
Faculty of Arts - Kafr El-Sheikh University | ||||
Abstract | ||||
The study contributes to shedding light on how to take advantage of what we carry in our hands of phones in making a quantum leap in the field of education where the problem of study is clear from the non-use of smart phones for educational purposes in a large extent despite the widespread use and cheap price and make available among university students and use only for purposes Traditional calls such as calling and sending messages, Its importance derives from the general direction of the state towards the development of education and the use of modern technology in education, and the recommendations of many conferences on the importance of mobile learning, And to seek to verify the following assumptions : the existence of positive attitudes for students towards learning using mobile phone, there are differences of statistical significance between the average score of students of the experimental group and the control group in the test achievement for the benefit of the experimental group, The study identified its tools in the scale of the trend toward mobile education, and the application of mobile education designed by the researcher to conduct this experiment, And achievement test , The study was applied to a sample of second-year students in the Department of Libraries and Information University of Kafr El-Sheikh and was divided into two groups (experimental and control) ,The study found that 72% of the students have a positive trend towards learning mobile phone classification, which is high, and that learning mobile phone classification helps to increase the rate of achievement study by 60%, The study concluded that the decisions of the library and information sections should include a curriculum for programming educational applications for mobile phones and use of educational mobile applications in distance education, continuing education and in-service training programs | ||||
Keywords | ||||
smart phone applications | ||||
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