Teachers’ Perceptions of E-Learning in Malaysian Secondary Schools

Abstract

Malaysian teachers are constantly bombarded with many new technologies that are believed to be able to help them perform their job better. Since 2013, they have been given access to an online learning space known as the FROG VLE. However, initial evidence has shown poor adoption of the e-learning. As schools are becoming increasingly disconnected from the sociteies of which they are a part, teachers withdrawing into their old familiar landscapes of teaching and learning can no longer be accepted. Being the implementers in the classrooms, their perceptions’ towards any innovation are important if the innovation is to be taken up seriously and to be implemented. Measures to improve present condition in order to sustain and increase e-learning uptake, can only be carried out if we know the situations and conditions teachers are in. A qualitative approach was used to identify the views and experiences of 60 secondary school teachers towards the implementation and continued use of VLEs in three secondary schools in Malaysia. Data was collected using an open-ended questionnaire. The results among others, share benefits experienced by the teachers, identified main barriers they faced and suggestions to better improve the implementation.