Student’s Perception on Implementation of Blended Learning in UNITEN

Abstract

Blended learning (BL) can be regarded as a teaching approach that combines online and face-to-face method of instructions in which it integrates the conventional classroom teaching with a combination of media, tools and teaching methods in web-based environment settings. Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) has been implementing blended learning since 2016 on selected courses offered. The implementation of blended learning was carried out in four levels comprising of information dissemination, online assessment, flipped teaching and adaptive learning. The objectives of this study are to investigate students’ awareness towards blended learning implementation and to measure their level of satisfaction on the courses they registered. A set of questionnaire was created on an online platform, and was disseminated to the respondents via an e-mail blast. The questionnaire has two different formats (‘Yes/No’ and ‘Four-point Likert-scale’). At the end of the questionnaires, each student is asked to give suggestions on current BL implementation. Data were gathered from a sample of 489 undergraduate students comprising of three main programs offered which are foundation, diploma and bachelor degree. Based on the results, majority of students are aware that UNITEN is implementing BL concept (36% fully aware, 47% aware, somehow aware 13% and not aware at all, 4%). From the findings, majority of the students show satisfaction on BL implementation as well as responded with the perception of agreeing that BL has helped them in their studies, mainly in increasing CGPA, provides better time management and reinforcing their learning. The suggestions obtained from this research can be used to improve the BL implementation in the future.