Handouts, Textbooks or E-Resources: Saudi Female Students’ Preferential Learning Style
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https://doi.org/10.53103/cjess.v3i4.165Keywords:
Digital Books, Digital Resources, Handouts, Learning Resources, Learning Style, Saudi Undergraduates, TextbooksAbstract
This research aims to ascertain the perceptions of Saudi female undergraduates in terms of learning resources and identify the influencing factors that cause them to adopt their choice of learning techniques. For data analysis, the responses are gathered from the tertiary level female students through a questionnaire. Additionally, several faculty members voluntarily provided their perceptions regarding students’ most favorable manner of learning. Though there has been a significant discrepancy in responses, a majority went for the provision of handouts or availability of digitally accessed materials with the reduced textual information for their effortless learning, regardless of attainment of course learning outcomes.
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