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

Taha Zedan, Emad Abdel Sattar

doi:10.21608/ijlis.2018.69435

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

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Emad Abdel Sattar Taha Zedan

Faculty of Arts - Kafr El-Sheikh University

10.21608/ijlis.2018.69435

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

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