Student participation model in e-learning

Abstract

Collaborative learning becomes a popular method to be a potential approach in meaningful learning and motivate student’s participation. However, its use has yet to be implemented in the current education system. E-learning is a platform that promises the full usage of ICT and technology in learning process and contains social media tools that support collaborative learning. However, the usage of e-learning and student’s participations are low, where the social media tools for collaborative learning are not fully utilized. In fact, the e-learning is only being used for disseminating learning. Interactions among students in elearning are still very poor and the learning process is not effective. It is also found that students fail to stimulate their participations until the end of the course. Other issues in collaborative learning assessment is analyzing the log to measure student’s participation that gives equal grade of performance to each student. This measurement is unfair because normally each student has different participation levels. This research proposes a Student Participation Model (SPM) that contains three main components which are social learning component, collaborative learning process component and collaborative learning assessment component. The main purpose of this model is to increase student’s participation and the usage of e-learning as well as to improve collaborative learning assessment. The social components include the Person: namely instructors, students and collaborators, the Behavior of a person’s action: namely Sharing, Exchanging and Exploring, and the Environment which is the e-learning technology. Meanwhile, the collaborative learning process of SPM is based on the Task-oriented collaborative learning model. In addition, the collaborative learning assessment for students is the log analysis that includes the students’ attitude and their participation levels. The model is able to generate students’ work progress result, participation percentage (individually and group) and also students’ attitude in e-learning (passive and active). This model is verified using expert validation method. The expert validation method is used to validate the effectiveness of model. It is found that the experts agreed that the model is relevant to apply, understandable and able to identify students’ participation.