Ameliorate the shortcoming: a quantitative inquiry on how engineering educator can improve Students Self-Learning trough MOOC / Siti Nur Amalina Aznam and Nurul Hanna Mas'aud

• Main Authors: Aznam, Siti Nur Amalina (Author), Mas'aud, Nurul Hanna (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: UiTM Press, 2020-06.
• Subjects: Article; PeerReviewed
• Online Access: Link Metadata

Summary

With regards to the ninth shift in Malaysia Higher Education Blue Print 2015-2020 which is Global Online Learning, the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) initiation has become central attention to Higher Learning Institution (HLI) in innovating the teaching delivery. With training support given by the academic office, more than 300 courses are now offered in UiTM MOOC. The presented paper has applied flipped classroom approach combine with the use of MOOC in its course for three consecutive semesters. It is off interest to know now how well the designed MOOC for the course is helping the students in their learning and what is the suggested improvement base on the students' preference. From the factor analysis conducted using Rasch analysis, it is found that the students having no difficulties to agree on the educator's clarity of using the MOOC. However, their level of agreement differs when it comes to their perceptions on the use of MOOC. Hence, suggestion of improvement informed by students from the open-ended section of the survey were frame, based on corresponding students on the specific item related to MOOC. The results will serve as an evidence base for the engineering educator in the improvement of MOOC teaching practice.

Item Description

https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/65961/2/65961.pdf