Open AccessOnline learning platform during Covid-19 pandemic: An exploratory factor analysis on students’ attitude and perceived usefulness in media and communication education
Author(s) -
Hasmah Zanuddin,
Nursyamira Shaid,
Z.A. Halim
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
communications in humanities and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2807-5390
pISSN - 2775-2569
DOI - 10.21924/chss.1.1.2021.7
Subject(s) - varimax rotation , exploratory factor analysis , psychology , online learning , coursework , covid-19 , technology acceptance model , computer assisted web interviewing , mathematics education , exploratory research , blended learning , medical education , educational technology , computer science , multimedia , mathematics , statistics , medicine , cronbach's alpha , sociology , developmental psychology , usability , disease , pathology , anthropology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , psychometrics , human–computer interaction
Due to Covid-19 and Movement Control Order (MCO) policy, Malaysian Higher Learning institution has decided to shift the learning into online learning mode. In this research, we examined the readiness and attitude of the Media and Communication undergraduate students for online learning platform during pandemic. A total of 144 students’ responses and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) were used as theoretical framework. Research data were analyzed using SPSS and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was utilised to extract the prominent factors. Component based examined using eigenvalue, scree plot and rotation was done by varimax method. The items with 0.5 loading or greater were considered significant. The findings showed that Perceived Usefulness was determined by two significant indicators, i.e. enhancing effectiveness in learning and improving learning performance with factor loadings; .869 and .849 consecutively. Attitude factor loading, meanwhile, showed that two indicators played a dominant role; using online learning is a bad idea throughout the coursework and positive attitude towards online learning and usefulness towards study; .762 and .816. The attitude of the students displayed unhappiness using the online learning platform for the entire semester due to the limitation of face-to-face (F2F) lab classes such as studio-based learning. However, the students had no problem in understanding the online platform utilized.