The World of Digital Education

A Solution for Today's Challenges?

Abstract

Digital education is increasingly influencing and leads to new designs for teaching and learning. It makes use of a variety of technology gadgets, including smartphones, tablets, computers, and other similar devices which have the potential to solve complex problems and effective for the learning purposes. Yet throughout the Covid-19 pandemic that hit the world, the learning sessions experienced much complexity from the implementation aspect. It includes teaching methods, student’s attitude, technical issues, learning tools, learners’ skill, learning environment and last but not least assessment in learning. Digital platform may become the solution to the constraints of face-to-face learning. The purpose of this research was to find out more about  the role of digital based learning in Malaysia and the challenges faced by students. Based on the UTAUT model, this study also discusses 6 constructs that help success of digital usage in the education sector during the MCO (Movement Control Order). A quantitative and qualitative study was conducted and a set of questionnaires by Google form have been randomly distributed. These studies also use SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) software to analyse the data collected. The results of this study show that digitization is a solution to the constraints of face-to-face learning nowadays. However, there are still needs to be improved to ensure the smooth and quality of education in Malaysia in particular. The findings of this study may provide useful information for future improvements in the national education system.