Use Of E-learning Research Articles

Factor Affecting E-Learning User Acceptance: A Case Study of AULA

E-learning is a strategy that is expected to transform ordinary learning into a learning philosophy that can be adapted, shared, reusable, and versatile. Based on previous research, e-learning acceptance is influenced by many factors. However, there are still some things that have not been determined and discussed; Therefore, they need further investigation. Based on previous assumptions, this study is an attempt to examine the factors that influence student acceptance of e-learning at Airlangga University, Indonesia. In this study, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and (Information System) IS Success Model were combined to test intention, user satisfaction, and actual use of e-learning. This research was conducted by distributing online and offline questionnaires to 100 student respondents; then processed the data using SmartPLS 3.0. The results showed that e-learning user satisfaction was influenced by the quality of education, service quality, and information quality. At the same time, the intention to use is influenced by the quality of education. In addition, user satisfaction and intention to use e-learning affect the actual use of e-learning. This research is expected to help decision-makers from higher education to better understand the effectiveness of using e-learning by students.

E-campus usage: A descriptive study on Malaysian setting

This study examines the demographic information of student e-learning usage in Malaysian private higher learning institution. Four demographic factor were involved in this study namely gender, race, age and faculty. Data were collected from 500 undergraduate and postgraduate students from private university in Kuantan Malaysia using a validated set of questionnaire. The data were collected by means of a paper-and-pencil self-administered questionnaire and analyzed by using simple linear regression analysis. The findings found that differs on the basis of gender, race, age and faculty.

Analysis of e-learning readiness level of public and private universities in Central Java, Indonesia

The development of information technology has reached into various fields, such as education. The emergence of e-learning is one manifestation of information and communication technology (ICT) in education. Until recently, only a few universities (6%) have implemented e-learning in Indonesia. Those that have implemented e-learning are still not optimally utilized. Some experts have also warned all organizations that will adopt e-learning to be concerned with thorough preparation to avoid overruns in costs. There is a method that consists of factors to measure the level of readiness of tertiary institutions towards the implementation of e-learning. The level of readiness is obtained through the distribution of questionnaires using 5 Likert scales. This research proposed a framework that produces four factors from the university, which covers the lecturer’s characteristics, e-learning facilities, learning environment, learning management, and four factors from the student’s side, namely, self-learning, motivation, learner’s control, student’s characteristic. The measurement results show the level of readiness for e-learning implementation in tertiary institutions in Central Java Province reaches level 3 or ready but needs a few improvements. Improvements that must be made includes (1) Designing exciting learning content through interactive multimedia; (2) Increasing the frequency of e-workshops or e-training related to technological developments, especially to e-learning; (3) encouraging students to be more active in discussions and giving opinions; (4) Developing plans related to infrastructure such as servers related to their capacities; (5) strengthening the role of IT units in serving e-learning users.

Antecedents of Actual Usage of e-Learning System in High Education During COVID-19 Pandemic: Moderation Effect of Instructor Support

The rapid full utilization of e-learning system during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic rises multiple challenges to practitioners and instructors – e.g., how to attain students’ needs and to increase their engagement with the system. Therefore, this study aims to examine the factors that influence students’ actual usage of e-learning system during the pandemic from three different dimensions (i.e., usability, interaction, and quality) and also to explore the interaction effects of instructor support on the three main dimensions identified above. This study adopted a quantitative research method and collected the survey data from 160 undergraduate students enrolled in two courses at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, reflecting their individual experience with the system usage. Regression analysis and model assessment were tested using SmartPLS with the partial least square-structural equation modeling. The findings confirm the positive effects of the three dimensions on the e-learning usage in both models (direct effects and interaction effects). The quality dimension stands as the most significant driving force among the three dimensions. Furthermore, the findings show that instructor support positively moderates the relationship between the quality dimension and students’ usage of e-learning, while it has insignificant negative interaction effects on both usability and interaction dimension. This research sheds light on relevant factors within different dimensions for effective use of e-learning system, also offers new insights to academicians and practitioners to further provide more appropriate mechanisms likely to drive students’ usage of e-learning. The theoretical and practical implications are also drawn.

Proposing new innovative technological features to support human e-learning interaction processes in academic organisations

The rapid growth and widespread adoption of e-learning technologies with human interaction has sparked a revolution in learning styles. The present study utilises this revolution to enhance human interaction and learning styles by designing a real application of an e-learning user interface (ELUI) that allows users to benefit from the effects of online interaction. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected through surveys and semi-structured interviews to measure students and teachers' perspectives regarding usage of the ELUI. The findings indicated that students were satisfied with the new features added to the suggested e-learning interface. The interview with teachers enhanced the study by further validating the overall high satisfaction among their students. The results provide students, teachers, academic institutions and developers some guidelines on the design and implementation of the future e-learning system. This is particularly so when embedding the interactional communication features for learning purposes through interactive learning settings.

Proposing new innovative technological features to support human e-learning interaction processes in academic organisations

The rapid growth and widespread adoption of e-learning technologies with human interaction has sparked a revolution in learning styles. The present study utilises this revolution to enhance human interaction and learning styles by designing a real application of an e-learning user interface (ELUI) that allows users to benefit from the effects of online interaction. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected through surveys and semi-structured interviews to measure students and teachers' perspectives regarding usage of the ELUI. The findings indicated that students were satisfied with the new features added to the suggested e-learning interface. The interview with teachers enhanced the study by further validating the overall high satisfaction among their students. The results provide students, teachers, academic institutions and developers some guidelines on the design and implementation of the future e-learning system. This is particularly so when embedding the interactional communication features for learning purposes through interactive learning settings.

Room for E-learning Development: The Interaction between Learners and the Interface

The present paper enhances the online interaction between teacher and student, through the proposal and development of several innovative assistive and interactional features added to a new e-learning user interface (ELUI). Using surveys distributed to 102 students and interviews with ten professors in the same community setting, the study measures student satisfaction toward the suggested interface and explores professors' perceptions regarding the effect of these features as contrasted to the physical classroom. The results reveal that all embedded features of interactional communication in the proposed ELUI resulted in a high level of satisfaction from respondents. Interviews with professors revealed potential concerns of online teaching, suggesting that the proposed ELUI would complement, rather than replace, the traditional classroom. The results further suggest that professors, academic decision-makers and developers should all consider student satisfaction in terms of adopting these features in e-learning systems. These stakeholders should be proactive in recognising and promoting the benefits of these features to address implementation concerns and maximise the value of learning systems. The stakeholders also should offer a user-friendly system, an interactive learning environment, support for future updates through useful system content, and personalisation through the ability to modify content and layout.

The Effectiveness of E-Learning Usage in Classroom Teaching to Promote Critical Thinking Ability

The use of e-learning has been believed to be a teaching tool to help the learning process be easier, practical, interesting, interactive, and motivating. E-learning is seen as one of the modes of teaching that helps students learn independently over the times and technological advances, so that its use has been widespread. However, its wide use seems to be a concern, where network availability, user access, and users become obstacles in its application in teaching. This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of e-learning usage in classroom teaching process to promote students’ critical thinking ability at the Institute of Teacher Training and Education Mataram (IKIP Mataram) - Indonesia, which is a private higher education institution in Indonesia. This study is an experimental research with the design of “one group pretest-posttest design”. The research sample consisted of 17 students in the physics education program at IKIP Mataram. Students' critical thinking ablity was assessed using the critical thinking ability test instrument adapted from the Ennis-Weir Critical Thinking Essay Test. The data of critical thinking ability were analyzed statistically, where homogeneity, normality, and t-test were conducted. The research result showed that the use of e-learning was effective in promoting students' critical thinking ability. In this study the researchers also evaluated the use of the internet among lecturers in the learning process. The results analysis are explained further in this article.

Students’ Readiness in using E learning Application for English subjects Among Undergraduates in Malaysia

Covid-19 is declared as a global pandemic that has been affecting the economy, society, policy as well as education sector. One of the badly affected countries is Malaysia. Covid-19 had struck the country and affected its education sector. Undergraduates in Malaysia are required to learn their subjects throughout the semesters via e-learning involuntarily. The utilization of e-learning for the teaching and learning at tertiary level came after the announcement from the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia as the initiative to curb the spreading of the virus. However, the usage of e-learning had led to few difficulties and dissatisfactions especially in the learning process among the undergraduates. Thus, this paper attempted to investigate students’ readiness in using e-learning application specifically for English language subjects among university undergraduates. This study also explored students’ perceptions towards the components of e-learning and to see whether this new norm can be administered in the future especially in an emergency state like a pandemic outbreak. This study utilized a questionnaire on students’ readiness in using e-learning to elicit data from 236 respondents. The respondents were both diploma and degree students of one private university in Malaysia, who underwent online classes specifically for English language classes during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period in Malaysia.

Students’ long-term orientation role in e-learning success: A Brazilian study

E-learning can play an important role in the solution to educate a large quota of the population in significant countries. Studies point out that cultural characteristics can influence e-learners’ performance. Our main goal is to understand the e-learning success drivers in Brazil. Our research proposes a model that analyzes students' long-term orientation role in the Brazilian e-learning context. We collected 297 answers from a survey of higher education students in nine regions. Data were analyzed through a quantitative method. Results indicate that information and collaboration quality, and e-learner satisfaction explain e-learning systems usage. Our model indicates that students' long-term orientation influences the positive relationship between e-learning systems' use and the perceived net benefits. We also found that system and information quality, and e-learning systems’ use are determinants of e-learning user satisfaction. Collaboration quality and information quality are determinants of e-learning systems usage. E-learning usage and user satisfaction explain overall e-learning net benefits, and long-term orientation has a moderating effect between e-learning use and net benefits.

Effects of using E-learning system on learning outcomes of students in Can Tho University

This study is conducted to assess the impact of using E-learning on students’ learning outcomes through combining models of technology acceptance model (TAM) and an information system success model (D&M model) basing on surveyed data from 294 students using E-learning system in Can Tho university. The main method used to evaluate this impact is structural equation model analysis method (SEM). The empirical results showed that perceived learning outcome is statistically influenced by three factors including learning assistance, community building assistance and perceived motivation. Of which, the community building assistance factor was found to play a strong role of students’ perceived learning outcome. Therefore, building solutions to develop of perceived motivation and community building assistance of the system in order to improve E-learning usage in Can Tho university should be paid attention in the coming time.

Exploring barriers affecting eLearning usage intentions: an NLP-based multi-method approach

ABSTRACT With online-learning becoming the new mode of learning, providers need to understand the barriers that learners face. The objective of this study is to utilise a multi-method approach to examine the barriers that affect learner’s intention to use e-Learning services. The multi-method approach consists of qualitative semi-structured interviews of 8 participants, topic-modelling on 3227 reviews from Coursera dataset and 463 responses from an online survey for quantitative analysis. The interviews revealed themes like ‘rigid-course-structure’, ‘complexity’, ‘quality-of-facilitator’, and ‘value-addition’. The topic-modelling approach extracted themes like, ‘technique-of-teaching’, ‘language-of-speaker’, ‘course-content’, ‘privacy’, ‘payment-issues’, etc. The empirical study revealed that value [course-content (‘course-content’, ‘value-addition’) and facilitator-issues (‘quality-of-facilitator’, ‘handling-of-queries’)], tradition [trust (‘privacy concerns’, ‘authenticity’, ‘reliability’)] and risk [payment issues (‘payment-failures’, ‘refund issues’)] barriers have a notable negative impact on usage-intention. The originality of this works lies in the fact that it explores payment-failure, facilitator-quality, and course-value affecting the acceptance of e-Learning services from the innovation-resistance-theory stance utilising data from various sources (qualitative data from interviews and online reviews and quantitative survey-based data). This work has also discussed different limitations in this study and scope for future research.

Toward Social Media Content Recommendation Integrated with Data Science and Machine Learning Approach for E-Learners

Electronic Learning (e-learning) has made a great success and recently been estimated as a billion-dollar industry. The users of e-learning acquire knowledge of diversified content available in an application using innovative means. There is much e-learning software available—for example, LMS (Learning Management System) and Moodle. The functionalities of this software were reviewed and we recognized that learners have particular problems in getting relevant recommendations. For example, there might be essential discussions about a particular topic on social networks, such as Twitter, but that discussion is not linked up and recommended to the learners for getting the latest updates on technology-updated news related to their learning context. This has been set as the focus of the current project based on symmetry between user project specification. The developed project recommends relevant symmetric articles to e-learners from the social network of Twitter and the academic platform of DBLP. For recommendations, a Reinforcement learning model with optimization is employed, which utilizes the learners’ local context, learners’ profile available in the e-learning system, and the learners’ historical views. The recommendations by the system are relevant tweets, popular relevant Twitter users, and research papers from DBLP. For matching the local context, profile, and history with the tweet text, we recognized that terms in the e-learning system need to be expanded to cover a wide range of concepts. However, this diversification should not include such terms which are irrelevant. To expand terms of the local context, profile and history, the software used the dataset of Grow-bag, which builds concept graphs of large-scale Computer Science topics based on the co-occurrence scores of Computer Science terms. This application demonstrated the need and success of e-learning software that is linked with social media and sends recommendations for the content being learned by the e-Learners in the e-learning environment. However, the current application only focuses on the Computer Science domain. There is a need for generalizing such applications to other domains in the future.

Emotional Preferences Towards E-Learning Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process and Kansei for Decision Making

Users in software world play key role in determining whether a software, including e-Learning system, has a long time of use or not. Past literatures have highlighted the importance of incorporating emotional requirement into software systems. It is important to consider what users need related to software. One of the critical component of a software systems that directly interacts with users is the interface. Users interface design (UID) could induce critical emotional experience and impression to users the first time they execute a software system. Kansei Engineering is adopted as a methodology to analyze users emotional experience towards the software UID. This research implemented a combination approach of Kansei Engineering and Analytic Hierarchy Process in order to analyze students’ emotional experience as users of e-Learning in higher learning institution, and then determines which of an open source e-Learning system that suits their positive emotional experience. This paper reports an attempt to discover the relationship between UID and users’ emotional experience in e-Learning systems. The research found that there were two critical students’ emotional factors, which are “clear” and “pleasant”. These two factors had a big impact in the selection of an e-Learning system, with factor of clear has larger impact. The research result then suggests the preferred e-Learning system for students based on those that evoked positive emotional experience to students. The result will benefit higher learning institution in promoting e-Learning, to extend the outreach potential of e-Learning among students.

Emotional Preferences Towards E-Learning Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process and Kansei for Decision Making

Users in software world play key role in determining whether a software, including e-Learning system, has a long time of use or not. Past literatures have highlighted the importance of incorporating emotional requirement into software systems. It is important to consider what users need related to software. One of the critical component of a software systems that directly interacts with users is the interface. Users interface design (UID) could induce critical emotional experience and impression to users the first time they execute a software system. Kansei Engineering is adopted as a methodology to analyze users emotional experience towards the software UID. This research implemented a combination approach of Kansei Engineering and Analytic Hierarchy Process in order to analyze students’ emotional experience as users of e-Learning in higher learning institution, and then determines which of an open source e-Learning system that suits their positive emotional experience. This paper reports an attempt to discover the relationship between UID and users’ emotional experience in e-Learning systems. The research found that there were two critical students’ emotional factors, which are “clear” and “pleasant”. These two factors had a big impact in the selection of an e-Learning system, with factor of clear has larger impact. The research result then suggests the preferred e-Learning system for students based on those that evoked positive emotional experience to students. The result will benefit higher learning institution in promoting e-Learning, to extend the outreach potential of e-Learning among students.

Students’ Views of E-learning Usage in Higher Education: An Explanatory Sequential Study

يتناول البحث الحالي آراء وتصورات الطلاب حول استخدام التعلم الإلکتروني في مؤسسات التعليم العالي، ولقد اعتمد الباحث على تصميم استکشافي متتابع کأحد صور المناهج المختلطة لشرح استخدام التعلم الإلکتروني بشکل کامل، ومن ثم فلقد اعتمد الباحث على البيانات النوعية والکمية لمعالجة مشکلة البحث، کما قام الباحث بإجراء مسح عبر الانترنت اعتمادا على نموذج القبول التکنولوجي بعد التحقق من صدقه وثباته قبل الاستخدام، ولقد شارک في المسح مائة وخمسة وثلاثون طالبا من کلية شرورة للآداب والعلوم بجامعة نجران في المملکة العربية السعودية، وفي وقت لاحق ، شارک أحد عشر طالبا في مقابلات بؤرية، قام الباحث بفحص أنواع أنشطة التعلم الإلکتروني والعوامل التي تؤثر على استخدام الطلاب وتقبلهم للتعلم الإلکتروني؛ حيث وجد البحث أن تصور الطلاب لجودة الخدمة هو العامل الأکثر أهمية وتأثيرا على استخدام التعلم الإلکتروني، کما أکد الباحث على ضرورة حل مشاکل البنية التحتية لتکنولوجيا المعلومات من أجل تلبية احتياجات الطلاب بشکل أفضل من أجل تحسين نتائج عملية التعليم والتعلم. This paper analyses student views of e-learning usage in higher education. To fully explain e-learning usage, an explanatory sequential mixed methods design was utilised. Consequently, both qualitative and quantitative data were obtained to address the research problem. First, an online survey was developed based on the concept of Technological Acceptance Model (TAM) and validated prior to use. One hundred and thirty-five students from Sharourah College of Arts and Science, Najran University in the KSA, participated in the survey. Later, eleven students participated in focus-group interviews. Types of e-learning activities and factors influencing students’ usage and satisfaction were examined. The research found students’ perception of service quality to be the most significant factor influencing e-learning usage. A need to resolve IT infrastructure problems in order to better meet students’ needs and improve learning outcomes was identified.

The Measurement of Usability Using USE Questionnaire on the Google Classroom Application as E-learning Media (A Case study: SMK Negeri 1 Bandung)

The Pandemic Covid-19 has changed various aspects of human life currently, especially in education. In this Covid-19 pandemic, E-learning users have been increased. Work from home policy from government generates the whole process of learning activities in SMK Negeri 1 Bandung been substituted by an online learning model. E-Learning platform that is widely used is Google Classroom. As a widely used platform, it is necessary to measure the usability of this application. Usability can be measured from the results of the percentage of eligibility obtained based on a questionnaire distributed to users, the questionnaire applied the USE questionnaire method, which contained a series of statements that have been grouped into several aspects of use, i.e., ease of use, ease of learning, satisfaction, and usefulness. The results obtained for each aspect of usability were the ease of use aspect with 80% of eligibility, the ease of learning aspect with 83% of eligibility, satisfaction with 81% of eligibility, and ease of use with 81% of eligibility. Overall the results of usability testing obtained 81% of eligibility. It means that Google Classroom application is very feasible to be used by teachers since this application is easy to use, easy to learn, useful as e - learning media.

Gender variability in E-learning utility essentials: Evidence from a multi-generational higher education cohort

The paper reports a quantitative investigation into the nuances of gender perspectives of E-Learning utility across the social categorisations of Generation X, Y, and Z in the current phenomena of accelerated usage of e-learning in the emerging multi-generational undergraduate cohorts: using multi-generational undergraduate cohorts (N = 611) taking a mandatory online course in a Business School curricular. Using multi-group partial least-squares analysis, the study shows differences exist in the utility of e-learning within gender and Generations of X, Y, and Z. These differences may not be apparent when examined at only the gender level, which has led other researchers to conclude the gender gap is narrowing. However, we establish that within gender and across generations in a developing country context, the gender divide is not narrowing at the same pace as found in other developed countries. To accelerate the implementation of e-learning in traditional (face-to-face) undergraduate programmes globally, there is the need to contextualise Course Development, Learner Support, Assessment, and User Characteristics factors along with the different genders, and across generations to improve Results Demonstrability and Student Overall Satisfaction of utility of e-learning. In developing countries, there is a need to enhance Institutional factors to strengthen the drive to e-learning.

Perception about E-Learning and E-Learning usage in Trivandrum District

Perception about E-Learning and E-Learning usage in Trivandrum District

EVALUASI KEPUASAN PENGGUNA E-LEARNING PADA PROSES PEMBELAJARAN DARING DI INSTITUT MANAJEMEN WIYATA INDONESIA

The research aims to obtain an overview of the (1) The quality of e-learning systems, (2) The quality of e-learning information, (3) The quality of e-learning services, and (4) e-Learning user satisfaction in the online learning process at the Institut Manajemen Wiyata Indonesia. This research uses the descriptive method of weighted average evaluative. Data collection is implemented by spreading the questionnaire. The results showed: (1) The quality of E-learning systems in the online learning process is categorized (well), (2) The quality of E-learning information on the online learning process is categorized (well), (3) The quality of E-learning services on the category of online learning is not good, (4) The satisfaction of E-learning users in the online learning process is categorized well.