Readiness for Online Learning during COVID-19 pandemic: A survey of Pakistani LIS students

Rafique, Ghulam Murtaza; Mahmood, Khalid; Warraich, Nosheen Fatima; Rehman, Shafiq Ur

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102346

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“…In 2003, the higher education commission initiated corporate social responsibility with the National Digital Library Program established the rst national e-library of Pakistan to contribute to society [34,[65][66][67][68] . It provides enormous opportunities for all students to access almost 75,000 e-books and 20,000 e-journals.…”

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Nexus between integrating technology readiness 2.0 index and students’ e-library services adoption amid the COVID-19 challenges: Implications based on the theory of planned behavior

Rahmat

Raza

Zahid

et al. 2021

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Background The advent of the pandemic COVID-19 has resulted in a global crisis that resulted in the closure of universities and educational institutions worldwide. This study aims to explore the determinants of students’ intention towards e-library services usage amid the challenging time of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper reviews the technology-oriented individual attitude based on four dimensions of the technology readiness 2.0 index factors, which affect medical students’ perspectives. Materials and methods The authors provided a self-administered questionnaire to medical students to investigate their e-library adoption attitude during the COVID-19 crisis. The authors distributed 542 questionnaires, received 361 complete responses and analyzed the data through path modeling/partial least squares structural equations modeling technique (PLS-SEM) with the smart PLS software version 3.3.3. The structural equation-modelling tool permits the estimation of results. Results The main finding revealed that medical students have a positive and explicit approach to use the services available at the e-library. Technology use and online services helped students continue their educational needs in the advent of the current pandemic COVID-19. Attitude and subjective norms have significant influence and are strong predictors of intention. However, due to inadequate support for the government side, the perceived behavioural control has an insignificant impact on intention. This paper indicated one of the pioneers investigating the determinants of e-library adoption among medical students based on technology-oriented personality traits, employing the four dimensions of the technology readiness 2.0 index during the challenges of the COVID-19 outbreak. Conclusion The study’s findings provide useful insight that offers valuable insights to implement specific strategies from the government officials to address medical students’ uncertainties and increase the technology adoption amid the COVID-19 pandemic in medical education for developing nations.

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Nexus between integrating technology readiness 2.0 index and students’ e-library services adoption amid the COVID-19 challenges: Implications based on the theory of planned behavior

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Zahid

et al. 2021

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“…They found that males adopted more behavioral strategies than females to deal with their disorientation during online learning. Another study indicated that in Pakistan, females have better online communication self-efficacy than males during COVID-19 online learning ( Rafique et al, 2021 ). To address the inconsistency in the research results, more empirical research is required in order to be able to draw firm conclusions about gender differences in SRL in online learning contexts.…”

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Gender Differences in Self-Regulated Online Learning During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Liu

Zhao

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Due to the spread of the epidemic around the world, online learning has received greater attention. Self-regulated learning (SRL) is an important factor for students to achieve academic success. This study investigated the gender differences in SRL and three sub-constructs of SRL in the context of online learning, that is the preparatory, performance, and appraisal phases. A total of 400 high school students (males = 125, females = 275) from China participated in this study. In order to identify whether there were gender differences in their self-regulated online learning (SROL), independent sample t-test was performed. The results showed that there were significant gender differences in the SROL (t = –3.334, p = 0.001 < 0.01, d = –0.410) and the three sub-constructs of SROL (preparatory: t = –0.702, p = 0.008 < 0.01, d = 0.018; performance: t = –3.801, p = 0.000 < 0.01, d = 0.456; appraisal: t = –3.120, p = 0.002 < 0.01, d = 0.361). The findings indicated that females performed better than males in all three dimensions of learners’ online self-regulated learning.

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“…This is explained by the fact that the implementation of large educational projects is impossible only due to investments of the state or municipality [12]. Neoliberal management trends dominating in many countries define effective public organization as a synthesis of science, government, and business [9]. This alliance allows achieving the highest results and its importance in the context of creating educational platforms is higher than ever.…”

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City manager’s resources and optimization of the online education system

Isakova

Ponamaryov

2021

E3S Web Conf.

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This paper attempts to assess the resources of the City Manager to optimize the system of online education. The need to develop a Russian platform for the implementation of online education is justified by highlighting the main problems: technical, organizational, and pedagogical. It has been established that the problems described above are related primarily to the platforms on which the online education process is implemented. The authors evaluate the functionality of popular services used by Russian universities and conclude that their tools do not meet the goals of online education and do not allow realizing its potential. A pilot concept of an online-education platform, which is supposed to be created within the framework of public-private partnership, is presented. It is recommended to realize large projects, which require significant investments, as a part of cooperation of authorities, business community and science, and the emphasis is made on this aspect in the process of project concept creation. The main forms of interaction between the actors involved and the areas of their responsibility are considered, recommendations for the selection of the most appropriate procedure for the development of the platform for online education that meets the needs of students and teachers are given. It is concluded that such an initiative will help to overcome the main obstacles facing online education and bring it to a new level by combining the efforts of government and business.

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Readiness for Online Learning during COVID-19 pandemic: A survey of Pakistani LIS students

Cited by 155 publications

References 42 publications

Nexus between integrating technology readiness 2.0 index and students’ e-library services adoption amid the COVID-19 challenges: Implications based on the theory of planned behavior

Nexus between integrating technology readiness 2.0 index and students’ e-library services adoption amid the COVID-19 challenges: Implications based on the theory of planned behavior

Gender Differences in Self-Regulated Online Learning During the COVID-19 Lockdown

City manager’s resources and optimization of the online education system

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