The global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic affected all areas of life significantly paving the way to the new normal set-up. In response, the higher education system in the Philippines opted to implement flexible learning as its delivery model. Flexible learning unlocked critical areas in redesigning the pre-pandemic learning and teaching paradigm, one of which is the deployment of learning management systems or online platforms to contribute to the effective implementation of flexible learning. The present study attempts to explore Google Classroom’s potentials and acceptability as a tool of support to flexible language learning and teaching. A survey questionnaire was given to a group of 44 university students who completed the Purposive Communication course. Using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) analysis of data, the findings revealed that the majority of the students agreed that Google Classroom could provide accessibility, utility, and students’ satisfaction. Similarly, s.
See Full PDF See Full PDFThe COVID 19 pandemic has led us to use Google classroom in the teaching and learning process worldwide since it is easily accessible at any time to an unlimited number of learners. Despite many benefits claimed, previous literature also cautioned on challenges associated with this web-based platform, especially from the learners' point of view. Intrigued by these issues, the objective of this study is to explore the benefits and challenges in the adoption of Google classroom from the educators' perspective by referring to the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Thus, a phenomenography study had been employed, involving forty accounting lecturers from one of the universities in Malaysia. Data were gathered through an open-ended questionnaire and analysed qualitatively using NVivo 14. The results indicated that five emergent themes derived from the benefits namely outcome and process satisfaction, ease of use, paperless and usefulness. Meanwhile, four themes were elicited for challenges; attitude, student engagement, effort expectancy and facilitating condition. The benefits indicate the vast potential of online learning, while the challenges provide insight into what needs to be done. Hence, the optimum use of this web-based platform will enhance quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for both educators and learners.
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Cavite State University Research Journal
COVID-19 has caused the education system to use an alternative method in approaching students. COVID-19 spurred the use of e-learning, such as Google Classroom. This research aimed to establish the students' perception of using Google Classroom as a digital learning management platform at Visayas State University-Isabel during the New Normal. A quantitative descriptive design was conducted on a sample of 357 VSU-Isabel students who were selected using convenience sampling. This study adopted a survey questionnaire from Shaharanee et al. (2016), which underwent series of validation from experts. The data was collected using a 23-item online survey questionnaire and was analyzed using Microsoft Excel and IBM Statistical Package in Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23. The results revealed that the student's perception of using Google Classroom is favorable as a digital learning management platform in terms of ease of access, perceived usefulness, communication and interaction, and student satisfaction. It also showed that the level of agreement on using Google Classroom as an academic learning management platform of the VSU-Isabel students differed significantly based on their sex and course. These findings recommend enhancing student's exposure to the usability of Google Classroom to improve their learning process in the New Normal. Furthermore, future researchers may use a larger sample population to acquire more reliable, informative results.
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Journal of Global Humanities and Social Sciences
COVID-19 pandemic had affected Education system around the world. Bhutan also closed down its academic institutions for around 4 months after detection of the first COVID-19 patient. Ministry of Education rolled up the idea of using online forum as an instructional tool to ensure the continuity of education. Besides many available platform, Shari Higher Secondary School decided to use Google Classroom as an instrument for online teaching learning process. Hand-on training were given to both the teachers and students on the usage of G-suite Moodle focusing on Google Classroom. This study attempted to assess students’ perception on the acceptance and challenges of using Google Classroom tool. An online survey based on 5-point Likert scale saw 219 students responding. The survey included statements of agreement on acceptance and challenges dimension. A follow up interview was also sought from few participants. SPSS was used to compute both descriptive and inferential statistics that in.
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AL-ISHLAH: Jurnal Pendidikan
This study aims to identify the students’ acceptance level of the use of Google Classroom as a platform in Blended-learning and to compare the results between three departments of Language and Arts Department in FKIP of Universitas Riau. Data of this survey research were collected through an online survey using Google form and analysed descriptively. The survey was distributed to all students and 205 of them responded the survey coming from three departments: English Language and Arts Department, Indonesian Language and Arts Department, and Japanese Language and Arts Department in FKIP of Universitas Riau. The questionnaires in the survey used Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) proposed by Davis (1986) with four indicators to measure the students’ acceptance: Perceived Usefulness (PU), Perceived Ease of Use (PEU), Behavioral Intention (BI), and Actual System Use (AU). The students’ acceptance levels in terms of Perceived usefulness (62,8%) was in very good category; Perceived Eas.
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Google classroom is one of the educational web-based platforms that offersopportunities for learners to make meaningful connections with the real world. This platformhas rapidly defused into the educational system and becomes prevalent in higher institutions across nations. Apart from its impressive educational and digital features, it is offered for freeand therefore fitsany higher institutions, specifically those with limited resources to set up their own Learning Management System. Despite enticedwith excitement, bountiful predicaments might be encountered by learners in adopting the platform. Intrigued with these issues, the objective of this study is to explore benefits and challenges in the adoption of Google classroom from the learners' perspective. In pursuit of this, a phenomenography study was employed, involving103undergraduate learners from a Malaysian public higher institution. Data were gathered from web-based open-ended survey and analysed qualitativelyby NVivo 14.The results derived from emergent themes indicatethatGoogle classroom offered learners 4 benefits namely paperless communication, ease of access, interactions within web-based community andsystematic class management. Meanwhile, sub-themes emerged under the challenges were difficult to comprehend, late educator's feedback, unreliable connections, no in-person connectionsand lack of support. This discovery provides useful insights thatapart from technology, management support andknowledgeable educators are also essential in establishingan optimaldigital learningcommunity within a course. Additionally, this web-based platform empowers learners to be prepared with the outside world and succeed in the web-based environment.
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MIER Journal of Educational Studies Trends and Practices
Educational institutions in Bangladesh had to stop face-to-face educational activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Institutions accepted online classes as the only alternative for conducting educational activities. Teachers and students transitioned from face-to-face to online medium by using a Learning Management System (LMS). Google Classroom has evolved as an LMS during this period. This study uses a quantitative research methodology to focus on students' adoption of Google Classroom in higher education using the modified version of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). In particular, this research aims to identify the factors affecting university students' behavioural intention towards LMS. The revised LMS-TAM model was used with prediction factors like perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, behavioural intent, enjoyment, subjective norm, satisfaction, and interactivity and control. A questionnaire was developed with experts' opinions and distributed online .
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International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic situation, educators in Malaysia have resorted to the use of the learning medium Google Classroom as an alternative to existing online teaching methods. Past studies have focused on direct and indirect factors towards the intention to use and the use of Google Classroom in public institutes of higher learning. This study therefore aimed to identify the level and tendency of acceptance items of Google Classroom-assisted learning among Form Six economics students based on demographic factors. A questionnaire was distributed to 206 students in the state of Melaka, Malaysia. Descriptive analysis was used to measure the level of user acceptance of Google Classroom, and the Rasch measurement model of differential item functioning (DIF) was used to identify the tendency of items based on demographic factors. From the findings of the study, the overall analysis of student acceptance of Google Classroom showed that it was at a moderately high level. DIF a.
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The development of information technology in recent years developed very rapidly, so that with this development has changed the paradigm of society. One field that is getting a significant impact in the development of this technology is the field of education, where education is a process of communication and information from teachers to students that contains the information education, that sparked the birth of the idea of e-learning. The use of any e-learning system is always followed by a push factors, as well as e-learning launched by Google, the Google Classrooms that currently used by the majority of students in STT Musi. TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) is a model of user acceptance of information systems and information technology assume that there are two individual beliefs, they are perception of benefit (Perceived Usefulness abbreviated as PU) and ease of use (perceived ease of use, abbreviated as PEOU). Therefore, this study was developed by adopting the model of TAM to see from both the perception in the TAM that affect the use of Google Classroom by some students STT Musi. Population of this research is the students who are already using Google Classroom in the lecture. Data obtained as much as 90 questionnaires distributed by using purposive sampling technique to all students active in the odd academic year 2014-2015.Results from this study showed that the perception of perceived Easy of Use and perceptions of perceived usefulness positively affect the use of Google Classroom. And both these perceptions also jointly affect the use of Google Classroom.
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Journal of Advanced Research in Social and Behavioural Sciences Volume 20, Issue 1 (2020) 57-68
Google classroom is one of the education online stage that offer open doors for students to make significant associations with this present reality. This stage has quickly diffused into the educational system and become predominant in higher learning institutions across countries. Aside from its amazing educational and digital edge, it is offered for costing nothing and along these lines fits any higher learning institutions, explicitly those with restricted resources to set up their own Learning Management System (LMS). Regardless allured with excitement, abundant circumstances may be experienced by students in embracing the stage. Captivated with these issues, the objective of this research is to investigate the advantages and difficulties in the acceptance of Google classroom from the students' viewpoint. In quest of this, a phenomenology study was utilised, including 180 undergraduate students from a Malaysian public higher learning institution. Data were assembled from online open-ended survey and interpreted qualitatively by NVivo 14. The outcomes gleaned from rising subjects showed that Google classroom attempted four advantages to the students' specifically systematic class management, interactions within online community, facilitation of assignment and paperless communication. In the meantime, sub-subjects that developed under the difficulties were hard to grasp, late teacher's response, no in-person association, unreliable connections, and lack of management support. This disclosure gives supportive knowledge that apart from technology, management support and proficient teachers are also essential in building up an ideal digital learning network inside a course. Moreover, this online stage enables students to be equipped with the outside world and to be nimble with the online condition.
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European Journal of Educational Research
