scholarly journals The cultural consequences of using social media as recognized by university students

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
May Abdullah Al-amer, Fawziah Bakr Al-bakr
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Education Students ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Descriptive Survey

    The aim of the study was to identify the reasons for using Whatsapp and Snapchat as recognizedby female students and to identify the cultural consequencesof the use of Whatsapp on the behavior of the university students in respect to social and knowledge field, and to identify the cultural consequencesof the use of Snapchat in respect to cultural and educational field and identify the statistically significance differences of the views among the female university students, which are related to the variables of the study: the stage of study and the number of hours of use. the researcher used the descriptive survey approach rely on a questionnaire that consisted of (58) sentences distributed according to the fields of the study, it was applied to a sample of (503) female students of College of Education at King Saud University. Preliminary data of the study showed that 33.2% of the sample used social media daily for more than 6 hours. The study found that the most important reasons for using Whatsapp is to communicate with family, friends and entertainment. They use Snapchat for entertainment, to learn about the cultures of other peoples and to follow up the influential people with experience, and of the cultural consequencesof using Whatsapp on the behavior of the female students in the social field are spreading rumors and mislead others through unreliable advertisements, and in the field of knowledge that Being preoccupied with Whatsapp messages reduces focus on task performance and facilitates the dissemination of ideas easily, and from the cultural consequencesof using Snapchat on the behavior of the female students in the cultural field, the predominance of entertainment and formal interests among female students and its role in dissemination of values contrary to our Islamic values and customs and in the field of education Students are seeing Snapchat as a tool to gain fame and show off and brag about. Given the importance of the role played by the social media in developing the social and intellectual mobility among the female university students, the researcher recommends to pay particular attention to this age group for their keen interest in knowledge to enable them to improve their skills according to their aspirations, thus contributing to the development of their society.   ، ، ، ، 

scholarly journals The reality of listening skills among students of the Faculty of Education, King Saud University

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasha Abdul Latif Kurdi -Noura Salman Al-Khalidi -Mai Abdull
Keyword(s):  
College Of Education ◽  
Female Students ◽  
University Education ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Scientific Dialogue ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Descriptive Survey

The objective of the study is to identify the reality of listening skills during the lecture and the scientific dialogue among female students of the Faculty of Education at King Saud University. The researchers used the descriptive survey approach. The tool of the study is the questionnaire and was distributed to 130 female students from the College of Education at King Saud University in the second semester of 1436. The study population was 1966 female students in the Faculty of Education by (6,6%). The results of the study showed that the reality of listening skill among female students of the College of Education at King Saud University during the lecture is mostly acceptable and needs more development and attention. The reality of listening skills among female students of the College of Education at King Saud University in scientific dialogue. Among the recommendations of the study is the importance of teaching courses on listening to the stage of university education, paying attention to the evaluation of listening skills of female students of the College of Education at King Saud University.

scholarly journals Attitudes of students of the preparatory year at King Saud University towards the extension programs provided to them: اتجاهات طلبة السنة التحضيرية بجامعة الملك سعود نحو البرامج الإرشادية المقدمة لهم

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Ali Mohammed Al - Momani
Keyword(s):  
Female Students ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Extension Programs ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The Media ◽  
Preparatory Year ◽  
The University ◽  
Descriptive Method

The aim of this study was to find out the trends of the preparatory year students at King Saud University towards the extension programs provided to them. The researcher followed the analytical descriptive method. The study population consisted of (10,000) male and female students. The study sample was 522 students, , And after the collection and analysis of the data, the study reached the following results: The prevalence of students' knowledge of the mentoring programs was moderate among males with an average of 3.71 and an average of 3.63 and an average of students. Hit (3.72), showed the There were also statistically significant differences in the attitudes of the students towards the extension programs according to the variable of the educational track in favor of the human track, and the absence of statistically significant differences in the attitudes of the students towards the extension programs according to the gender variable. The program aims to attract students 'attention to their diverse programs and students' needs, in addition to the media awareness (video, audio and social media) at the university about the extension programs and the guidance unit in the preparatory year. Through the system of follow-up students, and the work of seminars and publications to develop the attitudes of students towards extension programs.

scholarly journals Educational Use of Social Media in Higher Education: Gender and Social Networking Sites as the Predictors of Consuming, Creating, and Sharing Content

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-132
Author(s):  
Emel Dikbaş Torun
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Use Of Social Media

AbstractIntroduction:This study investigates the influence of gender and social networking sites (SNSs) such as Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter on consuming, creating, and sharing content within the educational social media usage behaviors of higher education students. The survey method is applied to measure students’ social media usage for educational purposes. So that a more effective use of social media in education can be provided, it is important to understand how university students vary in their educational use of social media. The aim of this study is to examine how higher education students use social media for their educational purposes based on the content and activities with which the students engage. The aim of the research is to determine the correlations, if any, between gender, preferred SNS type, and educational social media in regard to consuming, creating and sharing content.Methods:The derived scale is administered in Turkey with the participation of a total of 365 university students. Psychometric, validation and reliability analysis of the scale which is used in the study to collect the data were done first. Principal component analysis, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, descriptive, correlations and multivariate analysis of variance are applied to analyze the social media usage for educational purposes. Gender and the SNS type were set as the additional predictors of the consuming, creating and sharing content on social media.Results:The validation and linguistic adaptation of the Inside School Social Media Behavior (ISSMB) scale from English to Turkish is performed first. Results showed that the three factors of the original scale were confirmed. Secondly, the derived scale is administered with the participation of a total of 365 university students. Results indicated that gender difference was a significant factor in explaining the content creation on social media. Instagram, WhatsApp, and YouTube are the most preferred SNSs for educational use among students at the higher education level. No significant effect was reported for the type of the SNS used in consuming, creating, and sharing educational content on social media. The type of the SNS used by the students was not found to influence educational social media usage; accordingly, students consume, create and share content, regardless of the type of the SNS they use.Discussion:Higher education level students prefer watching videos more than any other social media activity for their educational purposes. The second most frequently preferred social media usage activity was reported as searching for the learning resources or information pertaining to schoolwork. Creating content was the least favorable social media usage. When the social media usage purposes focus on schoolwork and are furthermore educational, males’ social media usage outperforms the females. Thus, males were more likely to create content by using social media for inside schoolwork purposes than the females. Males were also more likely to have sharing habits than the females in sharing learning resources e.g., class notes with their classmates by using social media for their inside schoolwork purposes.Limitations:The total number of participants used in the research sample is a limitation of this study. The study data were only collected in Turkey, and so the study results are only regionally generalizable.Conclusion:Higher education students are consumers of the social media when they use it for educational purposes. Accordingly, students prefer being “passive consumer social media users who avoid active content creating”. Students prefer watching the uploaded ready-to-watch videos who avoid instead of creating and uploading their own video content. When sharing items are compared with creating content items, students responded more to the latter. Students do share their information with classmates e.g. exam schedules and lecture notes. Compared to other sharing content usages, students less frequently preferred sharing extracurricular learning resources. The gender difference found herein is a predictor of social networking site usage among young people, and social networking usage changes according to gender. Males are reported as being more “giving” within a school setting when it comes to sharing the educational content with their colleagues and friends. Social media is a reality of our modern lives, one that is growing exponentially; it is highly crucial that researchers facilitate a better understanding of the ongoing changes and developments that are emerging and transforming learning.Both outside and inside school, the social media usage behaviors of young people can be examined according to different age groups do determine any age-related differences. The subject can be improved with new findings and results from different sample groups.

scholarly journals Education Students as Consumers: Choice of a University Education

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Beverly J. Pain
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Evaluative Criteria ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Source Of Information

This study examined the university student-institutional relationship within a consumer behavior framework, which portrays the student as a consumer of the educational services offered by a university. The research examined some of the characteristics of full-time university students registered in the College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, and selected aspects of the decision process employed by these students when they made the decision to attend university for the academic year under study. Students did search for information, with the amount of search declining from first through fourth year. University students were the most used source of information. The most used evaluative criteria were the college program and previous investment in the program. No students felt that someone else had made the decision for them and approximately 68% were satisfied, at the end of the academic year, with their decision to attend.

scholarly journals Perceived changes in the university students’ health behavior after participating in the study on wearing high-heeled shoes

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-112
Author(s):  
Miloslav Gajdos ◽  
Sona Jandova ◽  
Rut Lenkova ◽  
Bibiana Vadasova ◽  
Jakub Cuj ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Test Group ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Main Motivation ◽  
The University ◽  
Significant Positive Influence

Introduction: Wearing high-heeled shoes (HH) is a wide-spread practice among Western women, maintaining popularity despite its harmful potential. We examined the main motivation behind wearing HH in female students, as well as the possible change to wearing HH among the research participants. Methods: Thirty university students (N=30 females, age 21.8±2.09 years; weight: 55.7±4.05 kg, height: 1.66±0.03 m, BMI: 20.34±1.41 kg.m-2, shoe size: EU 36–38), who rarely wore HH. The participants wore HH for no longer than 6 hours per month during the period two past years. The SonoSens Monitor Analyzer system (Gefremed, Chemnitz, Germany) was used to observe participants’ posture when walking and movements in individual sections of their spines. In a comparative experiment, the correlation between variables recorded when walking in two types of shoes was identified. The first pair of shoes (HH) had 7 cm heels whereas the second were flat sport shoes (FS). Results: The evaluation of participants’ spines and posture when walking in HH and FS revealed significant differences (p < 0.05). The evaluation of the initial and follow-up surveys indicates that the main motivation for wearing HH among the test group was to increase their attractiveness and respond to social expectations. After participating in the research and becoming aware of its outcomes and issues, the test group’s attitude to wearing HH has changed. Conclusions: In regards to good posture and spinal health, this study has raised some awareness amongst its participants, and has therefore proved to be a significant positive influence.

scholarly journals The Social Correlates of Anxiety among University Students

2018 ◽  
pp. 80-89
Author(s):  
Khisro Kaleem Raza Et al.,
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Use Of Self ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Social Correlates ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

Anxiety is a feeling of uneasiness experienced by an individual regarding his/her future-oriented tasks, where an individual feels apprehension regarding the worse happening which may not actually happen. The correlates of anxiety refer to the factors which lead towards the feelings of worry, whereby the social correlates of anxiety are the social factors which may lead towards anxiety. The current study was designed to investigate the social correlates of anxiety among university students. A total of 758 students from the University of Peshawar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were taken as a sample of the study including 442 male and 316 female students from all the disciplines of the stated university from its final year all masters programs. A proportionate sample of 30% from both male and female students was taken and the data were collected through the use of self-report four point liker scale inventory. The social correlates of anxiety among university students were divided into three broad categories including family (parents), friends and teachers. Data were collected, tabulated and analyzed for the stated correlates of anxiety among university students which revealed that all of the three social correlates of anxiety prevailed among male students. Finally, suggestions were made and recommendations were presented for minimizing the severity of anxiety correlates among university students.

scholarly journals Female Students

JWEE ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Mark W. Pruett ◽  
Harun Şeşen ◽  
J.R.M. Pandian ◽  
Greg Winter
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Afghan Women ◽  
University Support ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

We have conducted the first-ever study of female and male Afghan university students about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education.  Students at this new university in Afghanistan provided data on their intentions, entrepreneurial disposition, perceptions about the university role, and their beliefs about barriers and motives to entrepreneurship.  On the one hand, we find significant differences between women and men in disposition and intentions, with women having lower levels of disposition and intentions.  On the other hand, the two groups display remarkably similar views of the importance of numerous entrepreneurship motives and barriers.   They also feel the same about the positive university support of their entrepreneurship interests.  In other words, although young Afghan women and men appear to feel different about themselves and their plans, they hold relatively similar views on the reasons for entrepreneurship, the impediments to entrepreneurship, and the potential of university education and support to foster entrepreneurship in both sexes.

scholarly journals Pemanfaatan “Pasar Minggu Pagi“ Sebagai Laboratorium Peningkatkan Kemampuan Berbahasa Inggris, Literasi Digital dan Pengembangan Usaha BUM Desa Winong, Kedungwaru,Tulungagung

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Dwi Ima Herminingsih ◽  
Erna Ifftanti
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Sunday Morning ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University

Abstract This paper reports the service activities due to the use of business owned by the BUM Desa Berkah Kamardinan, the Sunday Morning Market as a laboratory or a medium for improving English of  the university Students. The place of business of BUM Desa is used as a tool for English learning activities. The basis theory underlying the choice of the media is that the attractive media and learning methods will attract students to be motivated to learn. The synergy is done on the consideration of Dikti ‘ s policy encouraging the  lecturers in collaboration with BUM Desa or Industries (Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka ). The goal of the partnership is preparing the graduation get ready to pursuit the job and helping the business of Industries grow fast.  The Method of doing the program starts with a preparation, then the implementation and the evaluation. In the stage of execution, the technique uses the group discussion and participation continued to designing the audio/ visual product.  The output, the students create the videos/vlog which then are uploaded in the social media such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The dissemination of BUM desa by students are very positive. The existence and activities of the Sunday Morning Market become well-known and attract the tourists to visit. The increase of the visitors can make the people welfare more prosperous. Keywords : Sunday Morning Market, Bumdes , Laboratory, Raise  Speaking Ability, Students of University, Develop Business   Abstrak   Tulisan ini merupakan Laporan kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat terkait dengan penggunaan usaha BUM Desa  Berkah Kamardinan  yakni Pasar Minggu Pagi sebagi laboratorium atau media peningkatan  Berbahasa Inggris. Tempat usaha BUM Desa dipergunakan sebagai alat  kegiatan pembelajaran atas atas dasar  theory bahwa media dan metode  belajaryang mempesona akan membangkitkan  daya tarik siswa untuk termotivasi belajar . Sinergi yang dilakukan oleh insan Dikti ,dosen bekerja sama dengan BUM desa Berkah Kamardikan  dapat memberikan kontribusi pada pengembangan usaha BUM Desa. Sebelum kegiatan dilaksanakan ada tahap persiapan dan setelah pelaksanakan diadakan evaluasi .Medode yang dipergunakan dalam pelaksanankan kegiatan yaitu diskusi kelompok  dan partisipasi dari pihak yang trekait. Hasil dari kegiatan ini mahasiswa menghasilkan video/vlog yang diunggah di media social seperti youtube,facebook,twitter. Unggahan  usaha  BUM desa oleh mahasiswa sangat positif karena keberadaan serta aktifitas Pasar Minggu Pagi Winong memungkinkan  dilihat oleh masyarakat secara luas dan  menarik  mereka untuk mengunjungi tempat tersebut berbelanja dan berrekreasi. Transaksi antara pengunjung diharapkan dapat meningkatkan pendapatan pedagang atau keluarga.   Kata Kunci : Pemanfaatan, Pasar Minggu Pagi, Laboratorium, Usaha BUM Desa , Winong    

scholarly journals The Attitude of University Students to Participating in Sports for All in Saudi Arabia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Hebah H. AL Ohali
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
University Students ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Women's Clubs ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Survey Approach ◽  
Sports Activities

The present study aims to investigate the attitude, obstacles, and suggestions for female students to participate in sports for all in Saudi Arabia. It adopted the social survey approach and applied the questionnaire and scale of attitude to a randomly selected sample of (375) students at King Saud University. The study concluded that the total score of the attitude was high. The cognitive, behavioral, and emotional aspects were ranked first, second, and third, respectively. The free time constraints, temperature, and weather fluctuations are the most significant obstacles, while increasing women's clubs and decreasing subscription fees are the most important constituents. The study recommends providing various and free sports activities, courses, and symposia to disseminate the culture of sports for all among university students.

scholarly journals Suggestibility And Its Relationship To Emotional Thinking Among University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 2786-2797
Author(s):  
Mohamed Abbas Mohamed, Sufyan Saeb Salman, Natik Fahal Al-Kubaisy
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Ibn Rushd ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Random Method

Identifying the level of suggestibility and emotional thinking among university students is the key aim of this research, as well as identifying the significance of differences according to gender (males - females), and the correlation between the two variables. In order to verify this, the researchers adopted the measure of suggestibility prepared by "Roman Kotov" (2004), Arabized by (Abdul Rahman 2014), where the number of its final paragraphs reached (79) paragraphs, and adopted the scale of emotional thinking prepared by Abdullah 2017). The scale consisted of (27) final paragraphs, and their psychometric characteristics were ascertained, where the two tools were applied to a sample of (160) male and female students who were selected in a stratified random method from four colleges at the University of Baghdad: (College of Political Science and College of Education / Ibn Rushd, College of Engineering, and College of Science), for the academic year 2019-2020. The results of the research showed the following: University students do not have a tendency to suggestibility. There are no differences between (males and females) in suggestibility. University students have emotional thinking. There are no differences between (male and female) in emotional thinking. There is no correlation between suggestibility and emotional thinking among university students.

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