E-learning readiness among
young
students in Malaysia
BY LEE YOKE, LEE NYUK LING AND CHIAM CHOOI CHEA
PRESENTED BY CHIAM CHOOI CHEA
INTRODUCTION

E-learning has received numerous attentions from
higher education because the need to change the mode
of learning and e-learning has become an increasingly
important part of higher education today.

Information technology (IT) has been viewed as a
solution to students’ distance, time and cost. IT in
teaching and learning has created a need to transform
how university students learn by using more modern,
efficient, and efficient alternative such as e-learning.

Due to the rapid growth of web-based technologies and
the high usage of the Internet have made teaching and
learning via internet, or e-learning, more viable in recent
years.
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL DISTANCE
LEARNING AND PRESENT E-LEARNING
Definition
Education
paradigm
Interaction
Traditional distance
Present e-learning
learning
 Correspondence
 Learning
anytime
teaching; multimedia
anywhere, with the use
distance learning.
of interactive network
technologies
 Passive learners
 Active Learners
 Lack
of
direct  Interactions
between
interaction between the
instructor and learner,
teacher and the learner
and among learners
 Asynchoronous
 Asynchoronous/
interaction
synchoronous
Technology  Written or
materials
printed  All electronic media
LITERATURE REVIEW
Researchers
Findings
Jefferies & Hussain, (1998);
The use of electronic learning
Poon et al., 2004) and Volery & (e-learning) as a medium of
Lord., (2000).
instruction in distance learning
is also becoming increasingly
important in Malaysia
Hong et al. (2003)
Students have high level of
acceptance with the web-based
course. They indicated that the
web-based
course
was
convenient
and
flexible.
Nonetheless, some students
faced difficulties with the webbased learning environment.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Researchers
Poon et al. (2004)
Lee et al.(2010)
Asirvatham et al.( 2005)
Findings
Students in Malaysia were not
fully comfortable with elearning.
Young students in Malaysia feel
that e-learning does not have
human touch as compared to
traditional class room teaching
although most of them have
high computer skills and have
own website(s) or blog(s)
Malaysia is moderately ready for
e-learning
COMPARISON BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND
OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING
Traditional learning
ODL learning
Flexibility
DOES NOT EXIST
EXIST
Geographical
coverage
ONE specific location ANYWHERE in the
world
Delivery method
Face-to-face
Online,
learning
Learning tools
Classrooms
Chatrooms, emails,
forums,
bulletin
boards,
network
websites etc
blended
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

A total of 312 young school leavers who are
currently undertaking their tertiary education
using the traditional classroom in private higher
education in Malaysia is the sample for this
study.

This study aims to study the perception and the
level of readiness of the young learners in
doing education using the “e” approach.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

Out from the sample, the female and male
respondents are of 61% and 39% respectively.

The nationality of respondents; 94% are
Malaysian and only 6% are foreign
respondents.

Majority of the respondents are aged between
15-20, followed by respondents aged between
21-25 with 72%. There is a very small number
of respondents with an age of above 26.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

There is NO SIGNIFICANT difference the means
obtained between gender, age group with the
readiness to learn all courses online.

The gender have a significant difference
perception on the readiness to learn all courses
online as the significant level is 0.035.

The perception of quality delivered through
online is the same as traditional classroom
teaching regardless of age for this sample, with
significant value of 0.169.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

In summary, based on this study, Malaysian
young students are relatively ready to accept elearning for all courses for all aged in this
study. Also, Malaysian young students did not
perceive any difference in quality in online
learning.

However, there is a difference in perception on
the readiness to do all courses online on
gender.
CONCLUSION.
 Based
on this study, young students are
keen to accept online learning because it
can save cost and convenience where
they can do their learning anytime
anywhere.
 However,
most of them are worry that
online learning will have lack of human
touch, inadequate interaction between
the instructor and the students.
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