Factors Influencing The Usage Of Multimedia For Teaching Amongst Health Sciences Lecturers In Malaysian Public Universities: Towards The Development Of A Multimedia Repository System
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Date
2011-01
Authors
Zar, Ni Wynn
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
In higher institutions worldwide, the integration of multimedia for teaching medical and health
sciences (HS) has been limited owing to organizational and individual factors. Organizational
factors identified were insufficient organizational support in terms of teaching resources,
facilities, information technology training programmes and technical support. Individual factors
include attitude and knowledge of academics on technology integration into their lectures. This
study was conducted to explore the current status of multimedia usage among HS lecturers in
Malaysian public universities; to conduct a situational assessment study to observe the current
system of organization support for HS lecturers; and to design, implement and evaluate the
acceptance of a new Multimedia Repository System (MRS). This study was conducted in two
phases. Phase I consisted of two substudies; an exploratory study and a situational assessment
study. For the exploratory study, a cross-sectional survey was conducted from January to August
2006, among the HS lecturers from 10 Malaysian public universities. An English version of a
validated questionnaire was sent to 190 participants and 90% responded. The Mann Whitney
test, Kruskal-Wallis test and multiple linear regression analysis were carried out using SPSS
version 15. The situational assessment study investigated the perceptions of training and
workshop organizers, as well as the organization support in the Universiti Sains Malaysia Health
Campus (USM KK). Consequently, in Phase II of the study, a new MRS was developed in
conformance with Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) metadata schema standard. In
January 2008, a User Evaluation Workshop was conducted among 35 HS lecturers in the School
of Health Sciences (PPSK), USM KK. An English version of the validated questionnaire was
given to participants at the end of the hands-on section.
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Multimedia For Teaching Amongst Health Sciences Lecturers , Multimedia Repository System