Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Mobile technology use in nursing education is quite a new trend. Over the past decade, mobile technology is increasingly use in nursing education as a way of improving communication between teacher and student, providing timely access to information and improving learning efficiency. This study explored nursing students’ educational use of smartphones. A sample size of 128 students was used for the data analysis. Descriptive statistics, Analysis of variance, Mann-Whitney test, and Kruskal-Wallis test were used to analyze the data. The study found that students mostly used their smartphones for sharing notes with classmates, reading lecture notes, performing library or literature search, taking photos of their work, and surfing the web for learning materials. Factors such as gender, age, and level of skills were examined to test where there was a significant difference in educational use of and attitudes toward smartphones. Findings found significant differences in the educational use of smartphones in terms of gender and level of skills. However, there were no significant differences in students’ attitudes toward the educational use of smartphones in terms of gender and level of skills. Generally, students showed positive attitudes toward the educational use of smartphones.