E-learning Acceptance Among Students: Evidence from UiTM Melaka City Campus

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic is a global issue that change the education system from face to face to fully online teaching and learning. These changes affected the whole education system and departments from the students, lecturers, management, and suppliers. Hence, to provide an efficient and effective online learning, an investigation on factors that affect the successful of e-learning in Malaysia is deemed to be necessary. The first objective for this study is to validate the measurement items for each variable used in this study.  Second objective of this study to examine the effect of instructor, accessibility, and university support on e-learning acceptance among students. This study utilized a cross-sectional study and questionnaire is the main source of information. The population of this study is students from the Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Melaka Branch. From the population, a complete response is 171. To answer the research objective, SPSS was utilized, and the analyses conducted including frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), reliability analysis and regression analysis. From the exploratory factor analysis, all items used in this study was above 0.40 and it consider acceptable. Next, based on the regression analysis, all variables used in this study were found to be significant towards the e-learning acceptance. Hence, this showed that, instructors, accessibility, and university support play an important role for the successful of e-learning. It is also suggested that to get a clear picture on the successful of e-learning, future research to increase the number of respondents across the university and states in Malaysia.