Motivation is the drive to will and desire to succeed or achieve something. Motivation in this treatment refers to when the lecturers feel the motivation in using online teaching tools in the classroom. Self-motivation of lecturers to change their teaching styles or methods is one of the problems stated by few researchers. The objective of this paper is to identify the factors that motivate lecturers to use online teaching tools, such as Web 2.0 tools. There are a variety of online teaching tools available to the lecturers. The popular tools are online whiteboard, WordPress, YouTube, Facebook, Edmodo and others. There are not many lecturers who apply the Internet as an alternative to provide access to information that can help to enhance teaching and learning materials. An evaluation of the lecturer's motivation had been completed by 30 lecturers from different subject matter experts. The instruments used were interview sessions and classroom observation, which were used to measure four motivation variables: ease of use, enjoyment, usefulness and self-confidence, based on the ARCS Motivation model. Based on the findings, factors that can affect lecturers' motivation in using online teaching tools are knowledge, perceptions and skills.

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As technology is rapidly changing our world, the way of life and a diverse array of the landscape of education, people can get education easy and it can be accessed anytime and anywhere on their own choice. Nowadays, the goal of people go to higher education is different, there is not the only the purpose of better life anymore, but it is the choice of people as students whether they want to get knowledge and skills from the university or through the experience of others or from their own experience. Some educators worry that even though education will never disappear, there will be no university anymore in the future as technology takes place a lot of the ability to teaching and learning. An Education 5.0@UiTM is a new proposed educational transformation framework and initiatives in teaching and learning pedagogy and ecosystem to face a wave of change every day and indirectly promotes many challenges. This initial study was conducted to identify the educator acceptance level of the new proposed framework and initiatives across 26 faculties and 35 campuses of Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia. Data was acquired through participated 370 educators in the roadshows and talks about Education 5.0@UiTM framework and initiatives.

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There are a few challenges for all lecturers to apply online teaching practices. Among the problems are preparing teaching materials for online learning and lack of motivation in teaching and learning using online tools. This study intends to determine whether teaching experience affect lecturers’ motivation in teaching online. The respondents consist of 149 lecturers from Jabatan Matematik dan Sains Komputer (JMSK) with different subject matter expertise. Teaching experience was assessed using a multiple choice question in demographics and the lecturer’s motivation was measured using four primary dimensions i.e., ease of use (EOU), usefulness (USE), enjoyment (E), and self-confidence (SC). In order to measure these four dimensions, measurement items were adapted from previous researchers. The Wilk’s Lambda within the Multivariate Tests shows the significance (p-value) is more than 0.05, which means that the lecturer’s motivation is not significantly affected by their prior experience. Study also found that most of the lecturers in the polytechnics have between 4-6 years of teaching experience with the highest percentage of 34.2% and only one new lecturer with experience lower than one year was involved in this survey (0.7%). To conclude, these findings indicated that teaching experience does not affect a lecturer’s motivation in using online tools. Equally important, the application of appropriate teaching and learning tools makes the teaching and learning more effective in the classroom. Aided teaching techniques with several Web 2.0 applications also helped lecturers to diversify their teaching styles. It is hoped that the benefits from this study would be able to help the lecturers to be aware of the potential of their creativity and to be able to practice this in their teaching, as well as in recognizing the importance of the factors that motivate the creativity of lecturers in teaching online. This study formerly looked at the factors that motivated the lecturers in using online tools and highlighted three main factors that can affect a lecturer’s motivation which are (i) knowledge; (ii) perceptions, and (iii) skills.