A discussion on E-learning offered in Malaysian universities: Pros and Cons from the students perspective

Today we going to talk about the e-learning but what is e-learning?

E-learning also knows as electronic learning, according to Turban et. al. (2008) e-learning is the online delivery of information for purpose of education, training, or knowledge management. So based on this we can know that e-learning must online access to take the material of study or study online this may be a trend for the e-learning. However, this e-learning also have benefit to adopt it but this will explain further in the following paragraph.

Here is some of the example of e-learning that offered in Malaysia universities

This is UM e-learning and here is the link http://elearning.perdana.um.edu.my/login.php

This is another university, http://elearning.utm.my/

This is UTAR web based learning environment, https://wble.utar.edu.my/login/index.php

Pros of e-learning
Can study anywhere and anytime where you can log in the website to get the study material as you like as long as have internet access so this become flexibility for student which don’t have restriction of attending the class. In traditional education, geographic area or time constraint will lead the student can’t make it to class maybe too far from home so take time to go campus to study. Moreover, the study can download the reading material through e-learning so this is environment care which saves cost and environment in reducing using paper for the note.

Cons of e-learning
Recently, the technology innovation is keep increase this may lead the technology become more and more complex so the student may not use the e-learning due to complexity of technology. By the way, also face another problem which don’t have the campus live and face to face interaction so this may lead the student dislike study online because student like to social with people, enjoy a meal with friend, chatting, and so on. Sometime, the student may find out difficult to download the study material because the lecturer did not upload it yet and need to wait and wait until upload it.

So as a conclusion, the e-learning have pros and cons but is better to have traditional education and e-learning together for purpose of education.

Turban, E., King, D., McKay, J., Marshall, P., Lee, J., & Viehland, D. (2008). Electronic Commerce: A Managerial Perspective 2008 (International Edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson-Education International.