Future Research: The recommendations proposed are relevant to Kuwait. For this reason, the study highly recommends introducing SP-Apps for KALs as soon as possible. Recommendations for Practitioners: Designing SP-Apps that have reliable content and user interface that is easy to use is a considerable challenge. They also confirmed that there are many difficulties in creating an SP-App including lack of budget, lack of awareness of library management, lack of clarity about library management strategic objectives, and vision for an SP-App. Findings: The findings show that most participants expressed the need to introduce an SP-App to their library. Contribution: This paper may be important for academic libraries to identify shortcomings in the smartphones’ content and services they provide and in highlighting efforts by libraries to address their users’ needs in this area. They divided in two KALs: Kuwait University Library (KUL) and Public Authority of Applied Education Training Library (PAAETL), while eight individual interviews were conducted one-to-one in this research. The questionnaire sample was 400 respondents. Therefore, questionnaires and interviews are used in order to collect in-depth data in this field. Methodology: In this study, the researchers use both qualitative and quantitative methods. Background: This study can illustrate whether the governmental, academic libraries in the State of Kuwait have already benefited from the mobile services provided by smart phones or not. However, the findings also suggest that university students in Saudi Arabia did not fully utilized smartphones for learning purposes.Īim/Purpose: This paper aims to investigate how Kuwaiti Academic Libraries (KALs) have responded to the rapidly evolving Smartphone-Apps (SP-Apps) environment, as well as exploring the level of electronic services provided in these libraries. Research findings indicate nearly every student owned a smartphone and used for normal usage. A better percentage is shown for downloading class materials, where 54.49% of the participants used smartphones for downloading class materials. However, results also indicate that 60.89% of participants never used smartphones for Blackboard, 66.01% students never used smartphones as a means for taking notes in a classroom and 66.89% participants never used smartphones to record class lectures. Research results indicate thatĩ1.69% of students have used smartphones to login to their academic portal.
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To study, the trends in smartphone usage for learning, questions related to learning activities such as login to academic portal, use Blackboard, download class materials, taking and recording lecture notes using smartphones, were asked. Results indicate that majority of students in Saudi Arabia used smartphones as a regular mobile phone, as a computer with an internet connection, and as a digital camera. Based on this data, the trends are evaluated, by categorizing usage into 2 types normal usage and usage for learning. Of participants, 94.4% (n=305 /324) owned smartphones. Students (N=324) from various academic levels and programs at Najran University, Saudi Arabia had participated in completing survey questionnaires. This paper presents a study on trends in smartphone usage among university students in Saudi Arabia. Mobile learning is increasingly popular among medical students and should be leveraged in promoting access and quality of medical education. The main challenges were lack of a smart device, lack of technical know-how in accessing or using apps, sub-optimal internet access, cost of acquiring apps and limited device memory. 64% of the respondents used medical mobile applications. Eighty eight percent (88%) of the respondents owned a smart device and nearly all of them used it for learning. The majority were female (59%) and the average age was 24 years. We had 292 respondents 62% were medical students, 16% were nursing students, 13% were pharmacy students and 9% were dental surgery students. Chi-square and t-test were used for bivariate analysis. Data entry and analysis was done using SPSS(®). Data on demographics, mobile device ownership and mobile learning technology use and its challenges was collected. Self-administered, anonymous questionnaires were issued to all final year students in their lecture rooms after obtaining informed consent. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted among final year undergraduate students at the University of Nairobi, College of Health Sciences. This study aimed at assessing the use of mobile learning technology and its challenges among final year undergraduate students in the College of Health sciences, University of Nairobi. Mobile phone penetration has increased exponentially over the last decade as has its application in nearly all spheres of life including health and medical education.