The University of Jordan E-Learning  Platform: State, Students’ Acceptance  and Challenges

Almarabeh, Tamara; Mohammad, Hiba; Yousef, Rana; Majdalawi, Yousef Kh.

doi:10.4236/jsea.2014.712087

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“…Accessibility in e‐learning refers to a learner's ability to access e‐learning resources with minimal effort (Lin, ). Tamara et al, in (Almarabeh et al, ), define accessibility as learners to access the learning to material whenever and wherever they want without losing important information. The concept of accessibility in e‐learning websites concerns with the following: Navigability: User interface and navigation must be operable.…”

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A new expert system for learning management systems evaluation based on neutrosophic sets

2016

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There has been a sudden increase in the usage of Learning Management Systems applications to support learner's learning process in higher education. Many studies in learning management system evaluation are implemented under complete information, while the real environment has uncertainty aspects. As these systems were described by development organizations with uncertainty terms such as vague, imprecise, ambiguity and inconsistent, that is why traditional evaluation methods may not be effective. This paper suggests neutrosophic logic as a better option to simulate human thinking than fuzzy logic because unlike fuzzy logic, it is able to handle indeterminacy of information which expresses the percentage of unknown parameters. As previous studies suggested neutrosophic decision maker and neutrosophic expert systems as future work in ecommerce and e‐learning applications, this paper presents neutrosphic expert system for learning management systems evaluation. Information for building and validating the neutrosophic expert system is collected from five experts using surveys, and then analysis is done by using Fuzzytech 5.54d software. Finally, the comparison between fuzzy expert system and neutrosophic expert system results show that the neutrosophic logic is capable of representing uncertainty in human thinking for evaluating Learning Management Systems.

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“…Similarly, while current E-learning systems offers learning enhancements such as collaboration, sharing and self-paced learning, but do not adequately provide solution to the demands of youth lifelong learners for sustainable development. The stumbling blocks in e-learning for youth skills development include: (1) Usability issues as observed in open source learning management systems such as Moodle [26,27]; (2) limited accessibility mainly due to poor ICT infrastructure and inadequate computer resources [25]; and (3) limited opportunities for student centered learning [28].…”

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“…Similarly, project NAMCOL also involved implementation of the national community literacy program for out-of-school youth and adult lifelong learning for self-employment in Namibia [21]. [26,27].…”

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“…From the research view perspective, while application of E-learning system presents exciting opportunities to bridge the above mentioned barriers, and promising research studies have been reported in the literature to achieve the same mission [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Nevertheless, E-learning systems themselves have their own implementation barriers such as: poor ICT infrastructure [25], User technicalities and system usability concerns [26][27], and lack of a systematic approach to guide implementation of E-learning systems in developing countries like Uganda [29]. Therefore, direct application of E-learning systems in delivering out of school youth sustainable education without addressing reported ground barriers will be just attracting additional challenges.…”

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Addressing Pedagogical Usability and Mobility Barriers in E-learning Systems: A Case of Youth Entrepreneurship Skill Development, Plan International Uganda

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2019

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Adoption of E-learning systems to address youth self-reliance entrepreneurship skills knowledge gap in developed countries has been rapidly evolving and reached advanced stages. Nonetheless, in the developing world most especially Sub-Sahara Africa it is still infancy. Of recent, some Non-Governmental Organizations have attempted implementation of Elearning systems as alternative means to traditional elitist spaces to equip the youth with self-reliance job start-up skills. However, despite the usual challenge of ICT infrastructure development, pedagogical usability and accessibility concerns are key undermining barriers to this initiative. This study therefor focuses on design and implementation of a youth entrepreneurship skills E-learning system prototype, ported on mobile technology with an integrated informal lifelong learning model. The proposed infrastructure also accommodates a mobile learning tool that enhances access and usability concerns of out-of-school youth lifelong learners in developing countries like Uganda. System design and development was achieved through a user centred participatory design approach (UCD) in conjunction with Human access point (HAP) design technique. User requirements inform of low-fidelity card paper prototypes were later transformed into working system interfaces. The developed prototype with both web and native mobile tool simplifies the process of self-employment business start-up skills access and development using interactive videos. Similarly, the system guides a youth in selection of appropriate survival skills, and selection of the learning path based on one's previous experience. In addition, the learning environment helps the youth to connect with skilled experts and coaches experienced in vast areas of the business. Conclusively, the platform helps survival skills providers to reach the unreached youth and monitoring of active youth ongoing projects. Evaluation of the developed system prototype was streamlined on the Unified Theory of Technology and Acceptance Model (UTAUT). From here user's feedbacks on the developed prototype were gathered using Survey questionnaires. Study findings revealed that mobile technology can bridge youth survival entrepreneurship skills knowledge gap in developing countries. Similarly, youth survival skills provider's responses on the developed prototype in terms of system access and usability were positive. Briefly, study findings revealed that personalized Smart mobile learning system architecture bridges pedagogical usability and mobility barriers in youth entrepreneurship skills development E-learning systems implementation in developing countries like Uganda.

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“…Pembangunan sesuatu teknologi berkaitan persekitaran pembelajaran dalam talian di institusi secara amnya melibatkan sokongan pelbagai pihak seperti bahagian pentadbiran, akademik dan hal ehwal pelajar. Secara khususnya sumber kemudahan fasiliti dan sokongan secara teknikal adalah amat penting dalam menjamin kejayaan dalam penggunaan dan penerimaan sistem tersebut (Almarabeh, Mohammad, Yousef & Majdalawi, 2014;Yiong et al, 2008). Bagi tujuan kajian ini, kemudahan penyediaan prasarana fasiliti seperti penyediaan lab dengan akses internet serta penyediaan kemudahan wifi yang meluas dan baik merupakan pengaruh penting dalam menentukan penerimaan dan penolakan pelajar untuk menggunakan laman perkongsian video pendidikan LearnSoftware bagi tujuan pembelajaran.…”

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This study aimed to analyse psychological, social, technological and institutional factors in influencing perceived ease of use towards focused educational video sharing site. The acceptance factors were studied based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) constructs, namely perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude towards the use and behavioural intention. A series of learning software video tutorial in the form of screencast has been developed and uploaded to two forms of video sharing sites which were the focused educational video sharing site (LearnSoftware) and social media based video sharing site (YouTube) to be used in this study. A questionnaire has been used as an instrument to compare and analyse the level of students' acceptance towards both forms of video sharing site based on the original construct TAM developed. Quantitative research method was used and data were collected from 294 students of Multimedia studies (major and minor) from 5 Public Higher Learning Institutions. significant difference found in terms of the attitude towards the use. From the multiple regression analysis conducted, it was found that psychological, and technological factors have a significant connection with the students' perceived ease of use towards focused educational video sharing sites, while social and institutional factors were not significant. In conclusion, the findings of this study can benefit the educational institutions, students and instructors as well as video sharing site developers in understanding students' behaviour on accepting and using the new technology introduced.

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The University of Jordan E-Learning Platform: State, Students’ Acceptance and Challenges

Cited by 31 publications

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A new expert system for learning management systems evaluation based on neutrosophic sets

A new expert system for learning management systems evaluation based on neutrosophic sets

Addressing Pedagogical Usability and Mobility Barriers in E-learning Systems: A Case of Youth Entrepreneurship Skill Development, Plan International Uganda

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