The impact of students attention, preparation and attitude on satisfaction with online learning zone

Changes in technologies have changed our lives. Education field was not exempted from the current technological changes. Technology now plays an important role to improve accessibility in seeking knowledge and wisdom much faster and easier. The changes of Malaysia's education system and worldw...

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Main Author:	Anisah, Abdul Ghani
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Published:	2014
Subjects:	LB2300 Higher Education T Technology (General)
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description	Changes in technologies have changed our lives. Education field was not exempted from the current technological changes. Technology now plays an important role to improve accessibility in seeking knowledge and wisdom much faster and easier. The changes of Malaysia's education system and worldwide generally have taken steps to lead the field in using trusted online access to benefit the education sector. Public and private institutions in Malaysia have been taking advantage from ease of internet access to provide its students with more secure and reliable information more efficiency. Therefore, this study is to examine the level of acceptance using Learning Zone as a portal that helps learning process. In this study, three basic instruments of attention, preparation, attitude and user satisfaction (US) that use as to explain Learning Zone. Furthermore, this study examined whether attention and preparation will have an impact on the attitude to achieve satisfaction. Students of Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) which have access of using Learning Zone have been selected to participate in the study. A total of 349 usable data provide by the respondents is being used to achieve the objectives of the study. To empirically establish three objectives, correlation and regression analysis were used to examine whether attention and preparation will have any impact on user satisfaction. Evidently, the correlation analysis shows that there is a significant and strong positive correlation between attention, preparation, and attitude towards user satisfaction.
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title	The impact of students attention, preparation and attitude on satisfaction with online learning zone
title_short	The impact of students attention, preparation and attitude on satisfaction with online learning zone
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spelling	my-uum-etd.40852022-04-10T00:08:48Z The impact of students attention, preparation and attitude on satisfaction with online learning zone 2014 Anisah, Abdul Ghani Abdullateef, Aliyu Olayemi Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business LB2300 Higher Education T Technology (General) Changes in technologies have changed our lives. Education field was not exempted from the current technological changes. Technology now plays an important role to improve accessibility in seeking knowledge and wisdom much faster and easier. The changes of Malaysia's education system and worldwide generally have taken steps to lead the field in using trusted online access to benefit the education sector. Public and private institutions in Malaysia have been taking advantage from ease of internet access to provide its students with more secure and reliable information more efficiency. Therefore, this study is to examine the level of acceptance using Learning Zone as a portal that helps learning process. In this study, three basic instruments of attention, preparation, attitude and user satisfaction (US) that use as to explain Learning Zone. Furthermore, this study examined whether attention and preparation will have an impact on the attitude to achieve satisfaction. Students of Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) which have access of using Learning Zone have been selected to participate in the study. A total of 349 usable data provide by the respondents is being used to achieve the objectives of the study. To empirically establish three objectives, correlation and regression analysis were used to examine whether attention and preparation will have any impact on user satisfaction. 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