An Assessment of Blended Learning Readiness among Students in Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM)
Poor traditional classroom learning has been a major concern in the teaching and learning activity.This conventional “chalk and talk’ method is replaced by pure online learning. E-learning, a method which evolved from distance education, has received special attention from both public and private un...
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| Summary: | Poor traditional classroom learning has been a major concern in the teaching and learning activity.This conventional “chalk and talk’ method is replaced by pure online learning. E-learning, a method which evolved from distance education, has received special attention from both public and private universities. However, for e-learning to be effective, it must be combined with the other forms of learning such as face-to-face learning. This combination leads to a new methogology called blended learning.There is now a new landscape in educational technology where physical and virtual environments are blended to support learning in university courses. Nowadays, the higher education trend is to emerge the traditional and online learning, placing a high concern for the development of information technology and deployment of blended learning.Blended learning is a new system of learning, which ultimately depends on the (traditional or online learning) in its implementation. Meanwhile, the internet has become a place for a new set of illegal activities, and is now under the blended learning system environment because of it so much dependent on the internet usage. In this research, is to put all lkended learning system contexts, definition, benefits, and the challenges in it.This research discusses the information security elements required to be implemented within the blended learning system environment. There have been many report on the effectiveness of blended learning and there were reports also on its adoption in private universities.But the view of the generality of the students in public universities in relation to the system needs to be assessed as well, in order to help in the improvement of blended learning. This research work also investigates the view of the students on the adoption of blended learning and its related security concerns among Malaysian public universities. Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia as a case study. The effectiveness of this system as the factor that led to its adoption was examined. The paradigm of the research work is positivist and so quantitative method of research was adopted. It involves the use of a well-organized questionnaire that contains relevant questions to get the views of the students in selected university (USIM).The level of relevance of a particular item was determined with a five point scale, the lowest point of which representing “strongly disagree” and the highest representing “strongly agree”. It is expected that the views of the students will be determined through the analysis of the data collected with the questionnaire. Student’s views will be determined and the areas of improvement will be suggested through a critical consideration of the students’ response to the questions about the adoption of blended learning in the research survey. |
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