Factors that determine the effectiveness of e-learning for secondary school students in Klang Valley, Malaysia /
E-Learning is continuously receiving favorable acceptance among the learning institutions since it plays an important role in providing convenient and effective learning to learners. Since e-learning was introduced in schools in Malaysia for over a decade ago, there has been much interest in underst...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/9703 |
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| Summary: | E-Learning is continuously receiving favorable acceptance among the learning institutions since it plays an important role in providing convenient and effective learning to learners. Since e-learning was introduced in schools in Malaysia for over a decade ago, there has been much interest in understanding the implementation of e-learning in schools and the factors determining the effectiveness of e-learning among students. At the same time, since the study investigates the factors contributing to the effectiveness of e-learning from the users‟ perspective, it is important to find the role of e-learning in helping students achieve their educational goals. The objective of this study is to find the factors which determine the effectiveness of e-learning among students in secondary schools in Malaysia. The study further investigates the relationship among the determinants of effective e-learning. The study involves three phases, namely preliminary visit to schools to get information about the implementation, observation on students who are using the e-learning system and collection of information and feedback from the e-learning students. A quantitative research method was used for this study. Questionnaires were devised and adopted as a main research instrument for the study. The questionnaires were also used to provide quantitative description about the sample chosen within the population. The collected data was analyzed and the findings were explained in detail. The study identified factors such as use of e-learning, user satisfaction, system quality, content quality and self-efficacy have significant influence on the effectiveness of e-learning. User satisfaction has the highest influence on the effectiveness of e-learning (57%). This is followed by use of e-learning which is 39%. Whereas, system quality has 25% significant influence on the effectiveness of e-learning through user satisfaction and 13% significant influence through use of e-learning. Next, content quality has 17% significant influence on the effectiveness of e-learning through user satisfaction and 9% significant influence through use of e-learning. Lastly, self-efficacy has 14% significant influence on the effectiveness of e-learning through user satisfaction and 9% significant influence through use of e-learning. Overall, the result shows that system quality and content quality play important role in determining the effectiveness of e-learning besides the students‟ direct involvement with self-efficacy and satisfaction of using the system. Unfortunately, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness failed to show their significant influence on the effectiveness of e-learning. This means the students were not much influenced by these factors as they were using the system for quite long and may not feel the importance of these factors for their learning now. Next, even though the delivery method did not show direct influence on the use of e-learning and user satisfaction, it has shown its indirect influence through the other antecedents such as system quality, content quality and self-efficacy. This means the delivery of content still needs considerable attention so that the students can use and benefit well from e-learning system. Lastly, the research contribution, future research and recommendation were explained in detail. In general, the finding of the study benefits the e-learners, the e-learning system implementers and the researchers as well. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 224 leaves : illustrations ; 30cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-209). |