posted on 2023-05-17, 07:59authored bySi FanSi Fan, Le, Q
The Web has permeated many aspects of modern society. Because the popularity of the Web in society is widely recognised, its role in education has attracted a great deal of attention. As two key players in web-based education, students and teaching staff are the end-users whose views and perceptions about the significance of the Web should be used as a basis for implementing web-based education. To achieve this, valid and reliable instruments are needed. This paper describes the development of a research instrument for measuring the views, behaviors and attitudes of students and staff on the role of the Web in a university context. This pilot study involved 92 participants from the University of Tasmania. Cronbach-Alpha coefficients and exploratory factor analysis were used to measure the reliability and construct validity of the instrument. The results indicated that the questionnaire is a reliable and valid tool for researchers and courseware developers to evaluate web-based learning in this context, as well as in other Australian universities. The discussion also provides some insights into the complex relationship between technology and learning in general and user-friendliness and learner-friendliness in particular.
History
Publication title
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
Volume
7
Pagination
366-379
ISSN
1558-9528
Department/School
School of Health Sciences
Publisher
MERLOT
Place of publication
Australia
Rights statement
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
Repository Status
Open
Socio-economic Objectives
Other education and training not elsewhere classified