What campus‐based students think about the quality and benefits of e‐learning

Abstract

There is a trend in Irish universities to utilise the benefits of the e-learning as a mechanism to improve learning performance of campus-based students. Whilst traditional methods, such as face-to-face lectures, tutorials, and mentoring, remain dominant in the educational sector, universities are investing heavily in learning technologies, to facilitate improvements with respect to the quality of learning. The technology to support reuse and sharing of educational resources, or learning objects, is becoming more stable, with interoperability standards maturing. However, debate has raged about what constitutes effective use of learning technology. This research expands upon a study carried out in 2003 examining students' perceptions of e-learning in a large undergraduate accounting class environment. As a result, improvements were made to the instructional design of the course, to enable students to engage interactively with content. The subsequent study, reported in this paper, adopted a broad range of techniques to understand students' learning experience in depth. The findings of this research provide an insight into how these students really work and learn using technologies, if at all. It is hoped that our findings will improve the experience for both students and lecturers who engage in teaching and learning through this medium.

Technology readiness, internet self‐efficacy and computing experience of professional accounting students

“…Much studies had been conducted to examine accounting students' interaction with e-learning and ICT in the developed nation (for example, Marriott et al, 2004;Concannon et al, 2005;Becker et al, 2007). In contrast, very little studies had been carried out to examine accounting students' and ICT from the developing nation like Malaysia.…”

Análisis de la actividad en línea del estudiante y su relación con el aprendizaje de estadística

“…Una tendencia reciente en educación superior es crear y proporcionar acceso en línea a los materiales de los cursos, como un mecanismo para mejorar el desempeño del estudiante adscrito a una universidad convencional o presencial (Concannon, Flynn y Campbell, 2005).…”

Multimedia Learning: Lessons from the PARLE Project

“…I therefore suggest the addition of an explanatory footnote] Experiments with e-learning in campus-based universities have had a more mixed response (Concannon et al, 2005). One of the challenges for PARLE was to harness approaches developed for distant students, to use in campus-based universities.…”