Online learning: student participation and satisfaction
Zarirah Zamakhsari1, Arifi Ridzuan2.
This research focuses on student participation and satisfaction toward
online learning at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pahang. This has become
a major concern of lecturers because of the challenge in engaging students
in online learning, thus, creating a need to study the activities used in
online learning. In addition, the poor participation of students in online
learning activities has created a major problem in implementing online
learning. Three research objectives were developed for this research;
the first attempts to identify the type of online learning activities among
students; the second investigates the approaches used by lecturers to
encourage student participation in online learning; and the third attempts
to identify the level of satisfaction among students toward online learning.
The findings revealed that the online learning activities preferred by students
are group discussion, followed by online tests or quizzes and searching
for online notes. Furthermore, uploading of assignments by lecturers in
the group forum was found to be a favored approach to encourage student
participation in online learning. Finally, the findings also indicated that
student participation in online learning was moderate, while, satisfaction
with online learning at UiTM Pahang was rated as fair. These findings
should alert the authorities at UiTM Pahang to find ways improve the
effectiveness of student online learning time.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
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