The Impact of Laptops on Female Students Learning in an Outcome-Based Learning Environment

Abdallah Tubaishat, Zayed University
Emad Bataineh, Zayed University

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Proceedings of SITE 2009--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference

Publication Date

3-2-2009

Abstract

Recently, many institutions around the world are using laptops in learning. The laptops resourcefulness has made it one of the learning technologies of choice worldwide. Zayed University (ZU) is one of these institutions. The ZU laptop learning initiatives aimed to improve the quality of education in the Gulf region. Several studies have examined the impact of laptops on student learning but none of them considered female students in an Arab Country. The paper concludes with some discussion on findings from a case-study conducted at the College of Information Technology (CIT) to understand the impact of laptops on students learning in an outcome-based learning environment in order to assess the value-added of laptops to students learning. Results show studying in a laptop learning environment helped students: (a) be more confident in expressing their ideas, (b) develop their communication skills, and most importantly, (c) be independent learners.

Publisher

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

Volume

2009

First Page

1126

Last Page

1133

Disciplines

Education

Keywords

communication skills, laptop

Indexed in Scopus

no

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Bronze: This publication is openly available on the publisher’s website but without an open license

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