Open AccessAssessing Malaysian Students Readiness to Become Authors of Learning Materials in a Collaborative Digital Library of School Projects
Author(s) -
Abrizah Abdullah,
A.N. Zainab
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iasl conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-8372
DOI - 10.29173/iasl7621
Subject(s) - digital library , resource (disambiguation) , focus group , school library , mathematics education , medical education , publication , computer science , multimedia , psychology , world wide web , sociology , medicine , political science , art , computer network , literature , poetry , anthropology , law
This study investigates students ICT readiness, usage of online resources and information seeking behaviour of secondary school students with the specific goal of applying the results to the design of a collaborative digital library for school projects. The digital library has been conceived to support resource needs of these students as well provide the space for them to publish their school projects, which are currently submitted handwritten. The study uses the case study approach and an urban secondary school in Malaysia is chosen as the case school. This paper reports the findings from a survey and focus group interviews which indicate that the students are ready to collaboratively build the digital library as evidenced by students digital library readiness score of 69%.