Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of e-Learning system based on the usage, perception and satisfaction among Postgraduate students in relation to the differences between race, gender, department and level of computer usage experiences. The study was conducted in university, Kuala Lumpur. The questionnaire was distributed to 67 postgraduate students. E-learning is composed of three main factors, the usage, perception and satisfaction of e-Learning between department and access duration. The results of this study showed that most (always) of the student used e-learning to upload lecture notes (28%) and submit assignment (30%). The use of the e-learning system by lecturers might increase student perception that e-learning system has made studying life easier. Postgraduate students from different departments have similar levels of computer usage experience; sources of awareness of e-learning similar number of times accessing e-learning in a week and have similar reasons for using the e-Learning system. There was significance difference of the reasons using e-Learning for group discussions and download lecture notes between department. In conclusion, the usage of e-Learning among postgraduate student was low and mainly to download lecture notes.
Highlights
E-learning is one of the methods of learning which has been introduced since 1990’s
The objectives of this study are to identify the usage of e-Learning system and to determine the effectiveness of the usage, awareness and satisfaction among Postgraduate students according to the differences between gender, race and departments
The second section consist of level of computer usage, the main reason using the e-learning, the opinion on effectiveness of the e-learning, such as user-friendly, to download lecture notes and improvement suggested on the e-learning system
Summary
E-learning are more frequently used and important in 21st century with the exploration of information technology that has become important and popular because of precision, easy and convenience. They are more used to e-learning as a complement to more traditional method (Bernard et al, 2004). E-learning techniques using internet as a medium to deliver knowledge, assignments, lecture notes between teachers, lecturers, administrators and students. This process will give benefit to the user because their can use it according to their own time and space. Another advantage of e-learning was that it can be accessed anytime, anywhere according to the capability of the user (Henry, 2001; Roffe, 2002)
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