The Reality of Using Postgraduate Female Students in the College of Education at king Saud University for Cloud Computing Applications in Project Based Learning and Their Attitudes Towards it

Al-Otaibi, Sheikha Saeed; Al-Harbi, Maha Mohammed

doi:10.21608/jsrep.2022.266966

The Reality of Using Postgraduate Female Students in the College of Education at king Saud University for Cloud Computing Applications in Project Based Learning and Their Attitudes Towards it

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Educational Technologies, College of Education, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

10.21608/jsrep.2022.266966

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The research aimed at recognizing the reality of the use of cloud computing applications by female postgraduate students in project-based learning, and what applications or platforms are most used to support cloud computing in project-based learning and female students' trends towards them, and to detect the obstacles female students facing in using them. The research procedures were based on the survey descriptive method, a sample of 181 master's female students from the Faculty of Education of King Saud University enrolled in the second semester of 1443 A.H. in all specializations of the college, and A questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The research found several findings, including that female students use cloud storage to save files for the project, that Outlook is the most used in sending the project group's email, and that female students are approved for their use of cloud computing applications in project-based learning, and that the Obstacles faced by female students when using cloud computing applications, the lack of training programs on cloud computing applications, and the lack of use of the faculty, are also obstacles. In the light of the research findings, developed a danumber of recommendations and proposals.

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