Reading on the World Wide Web has become a daily habit nowadays. This can be seen from the perspective of changes on readers’ tendency to be more interested in materials from the internet, than the printed media. Taking these developments into account, it is important for web-based instructional designers to choose the appropriate font, especially for long blocks of text, in order to enhance the level of students’ readability. Accordingly, this study aims to evaluate the effects of serif and san serif font in the category of screen fonts and print fonts, in terms of Malay text readability on websites. For this purpose, four fonts were selected, namely Georgia (serif) and Verdana (san serif) for the first respondents and Times New Roman (serif) and Arial (san serif) for the second respondents. Georgia and Verdana were designed for computer screens display. Meanwhile, Times New Roman and Arial were originally designed for print media. Readability test on a computer screen was conducted on 48 undergraduates. Overall, the results showed that there was no significant difference between the redability of serif and san serif font of both screen display category and print display category. Accordingly, the research findings and the literature overview, suggest that Verdana and followed by Georgia as the better choice in displaying long text on websites. Likewise, as anticipated, Times New Roman and Arial fonts provide good readability for print media, which reinfoces their status as the printing font category. However, with the current computer screen capability, it can still be an alternative option for instructional web developers.
Teknologi hologram kini semakin banyak digunakan dalam pelbagai bidang termasuk bidang pendidikan. Penggunaan hologram dilihat sangat berpotensi untuk dijadikan sebagai perwakilan tenaga pengajar sebenar di dalam kelas. Penggunaan tutor hologram juga dikatakan mampu menarik minat serta meningkatkan motivasi pelajar terhadap proses pembelajaran. Dengan pelbagai kelebihan yang ditawarkan, aspek pengalaman pelajar (LX) terhadap penggunaan tutor hologram ini tetap menjadi persoalan. Terutamanya, dari sudut pengalaman dan penerimaan pelajar dari pelbagai peringkat umur. Hal ini kerana, pengalaman dan penerimaan seseorang terhadap sesuatu teknologi baharu dilihat berbeza berdasarkan umur mereka. Sehubungan itu, kajian ini bertujuan membangunkan tutor hologram karakter manusia sebenar serta melihat kesannya terhadap pengalaman pelajar (LX) yang terdiri dari pelbagai peringkat umur. Secara khusus, responden bagi kajian ini terdiri daripada empat kumpulan yang berbeza peringkat umur yang dipilih dari sekolah rendah hingga ke peringkat tertiari. Soal selidik User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) telah digunakan untuk mendapatkan maklum balas pelajar sebaik selesai sesi pembelajaran dengan tutor hologram. Secara kesimpulan, terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan bagi pengalaman pelajar (LX) pelbagai kategori umur terhadap tutor hologram karakter manusia sebenar. Namun, skor min pengalaman pelajar (LX) tetap berada pada tahap yang positif dan neutral bagi setiap kumpulan.
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