The Effectiveness of Using E-Learning in Malaysian Higher Education: A Case Study Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Abstract

E-Learning is a fairly recent word used to define a form of learning that can be performed via websites online learning. The impact of contingent factors on the relationship between six predictors and e-learning effectiveness was investigated. The development and implementation of e-learning today has become an important phases in university. This study is centered on evaluating the e-learning effectiveness in UTM. And in this study, the critical factors affecting e-learning effectiveness were investigated through a survey conducted on students as participants. A total of 268 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) (undergraduate students) students were used in the survey. Several factors have been found to correlate with e-learning effectiveness which includes self-efficacy, interface, community, usefulness, students' satisfaction and intention to use elearning. The results show that e-learning use positively and significantly related to students' satisfaction, usefulness that is impact intention to use in turn affect e-learning effectiveness.

E-Learning Technology Adoption in the Philippines: An Investigation of Factors Affecting Filipino College Students' Acceptance of Learning Management Systems

“…With the Internet getting more powerful day by day and along with it are the e-learning environments as one of the direct beneficiaries, researchers and academicians have been extending their studies into advanced courses and fields such as Engineering [5], Mathematics [6], Economics [7], Physics [8], Medicine [9] and many more just to dive deeper into students' perceptions. Apart from these, there are also a lot of research papers that extensively studied factors that affect e-learning technology readiness and acceptance in different setting from neighboring countries such as Malaysia [10][11], Thailand [12][13], Indonesia [14][15] to a not so much outside Asia like Turkey [16] and Sri Lanka [17] up to other continents like Africa [18] and America [19].…”

Integrated-system to minimizing cyber harassment in kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)

“…Furthermore, the proposed approach includes four main steps: selecting different profiles, collecting profiles data and tweets, features, and supervised learning. In contrast, [4][5][6] students and researchers have positive attitudes and intentions to use social media for educational purposes. The problem of detecting the cyber harassment is located in using the foul words as indicator of friendship and close relationship, specialty by teenagers.…”

Understanding Students’ Motivation and Learning Strategies to Redesign Massive Open Online Courses based on Persuasive System Development

“…The development and implementation of e-learning have become a necessity for academic institutions. This is because of the benefits E-learning brings to universities [3]. To make this happen, technologies and innovations such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are implemented.…”

“…Electronic learning or E-learning is currently flourishing immensely in areas such as secondary and tertiary education, lifelong learning programs and adult education [1]. Due to the advantages that E-learning brings to tertiary education institutions particularly the absence of reliance on the time requirements, the capacity to pose inquiries without timidity and access of materials from anyplace [2], the implementation of E-learning has become widely implemented [3]. E-learning is defined as the development of knowledge and skills using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support interactions (i) with content, (ii) learning activities and tools, and (iii) other people.…”