Probably you would get the same results any place in the world where the kids have smartphones. They can't seem to let them alone. In fact, many grownups are like that too.
Revealed: What UAE students are ready to give up
TV, eating out – but not smartphones
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Many students would prefer to give up coffee, TV and eating out before their precious smartphones, according to a report called ‘Building the #GenMobile Campus’, from Aruba Networks.
Nearly a fifth of these students (19 per cent) spend more than five hours online daily, preferring Wi-Fi connections (73 per cent) over any other such as 3G or 4G.
The study, which polled nearly 1,500 students across the globe including UAE and Saudi Arabia, the two biggest IT markets in the Middle East, showed that nearly two thirds (65 per cent) of today’s students own three or more connected devices; spend over five hours a day on their mobiles, often use more than five apps at any one time; and are regularly rejecting traditional lecture-hall based learning for digital working across campus – whenever it works for them.
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Revealed: What UAE students are ready to give up
TV, eating out – but not smartphones
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Many students would prefer to give up coffee, TV and eating out before their precious smartphones, according to a report called ‘Building the #GenMobile Campus’, from Aruba Networks.
Nearly a fifth of these students (19 per cent) spend more than five hours online daily, preferring Wi-Fi connections (73 per cent) over any other such as 3G or 4G.
The study, which polled nearly 1,500 students across the globe including UAE and Saudi Arabia, the two biggest IT markets in the Middle East, showed that nearly two thirds (65 per cent) of today’s students own three or more connected devices; spend over five hours a day on their mobiles, often use more than five apps at any one time; and are regularly rejecting traditional lecture-hall based learning for digital working across campus – whenever it works for them.
Continue reading at:
Revealed What UAE students are ready to give up - Emirates 24 7
