Effectiveness of A Mobile Learning Environment To Improve Digital Citizenship Skills And Psychological Security In Blind Students

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 visual impairment- faculty of special needs science - beni suief university

2 DERAYA UNEVERSITY - MINIA

3 COMPUTERS FACULTY - MINIA

Abstract

The current research aimed to verify the effectiveness of Edmodo mobile learning environment on improving digital citizenship skills and psychological security in university blind students (first university degree and postgraduate studies). The research required using both descriptive and quasi-experimental approaches. The main sample consisted of (20) blind students at Beni Suef University, divided into two groups (experimental and control ones), (10) students each. To achieve the research goals, Psychological Security Scale was applied, by: Zainab Shokair (2000), Digital Citizenship Skills Scale researcher-made, and experimental treatment tool designed - mobile learning environment using Edmodo and being applied to the experimental group. After the statistical manipulation, the research findings resulted that there were statistically significant differences between the mean rank scores of experimental and control groups in post-assessment on digital citizenship skills and psychological security scales favoring the experimental group. There were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group scores in pre and post assessments on digital citizenship skills and psychological security scales favoring the post assessment. There were no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of experimental group in post and follow-up assessments on digital citizenship skills and psychological security scales, and also the results indicated the effectiveness of Edmodo mobile learning environment on improving digital citizenship skills and psychological security in university blind students (first university degree and postgraduate studies), as well as the continuity effectiveness of the proposed environment on improving their skills through follow-up assessment after a month of graduation.

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