Creative Education, 2019, 10, 667-676
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ISSN Print: 2151-4755
DOI: 10.4236/ce.2019.104049 Apr. 17, 2019 667 Creative Education
Traditional Material Resources versus Digital
Resources: The Choice of Information Sources
of the FCMS Nursing Interns
Rino S. de Sagun
1
, William D. Taala
1
, Filoteo B. Franco Jr.
2
, Rock P. Cordero
1
1
Fakeeh College for Medical Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2
Prince Mohammad Bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship, King Abdullah Economic City, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Abstract
This paper seeks to determine the choice of information source among FCMS
nursing interns using the three-dimensional evaluation method namely; re-
liability, accessibly and purpose between the traditional and digital resources.
Appropriate cross tabulations were used in the study to present the results
using actual numbers, percentages and means. The results showed that there
is no significant difference on the perception among respondents with regard
to reliability, accessibility and purpose of the traditional and digital sources of
information albeit that digital resource has just been recently introduced in
the kingdom. Furthermore, the study also presented the respondent’s percep-
tion on the relationship of the two sources of information, specifically books
and the Internet. The respondents mostly answered “highly accepted” as in-
dicated by the high averages with a mean score nearly 5.
Keywords
Information Sources, Traditional Information Sources, Digital Resources
1. Introduction
We live in an information age where the amount of information available is so
incredibly large that we cannot know everything about it. Similarly, the available
information available today, is not only a massive, but also an unequal level of
quality. You should not only possess the skills needed on where you find infor-
mation but as well as which of these informations you should accept. You may
feel overwhelmed with the extremities of the information and may be tempted
to accept what you find. It is necessary to evaluate the information effectively
How to cite this paper: de Sagun, R. S.,
Taala, W. D., Franco Jr., F. B., & Cordero,
R. P. (2019). Traditional Material Re-
sources versus Digital Resources: The
Choice of Information Sources of the
FCMS Nursing Interns. Creative Education,
10, 667-676.
https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2019.104049
Received: March 13, 2019
Accepted: April 14, 2019
Published: April 17, 2019
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