e-learning readiness - Asia Pacific Region - Open University Malaysia

In terms of financial readiness, the group’s perception was tabulated at amean value of 5.81 and a standard deviation value of 2.447. In theiropinion, organisations were moderately ready to invest in E-learning.The lowest score was recorded for the item on environmental readiness.The group concluded that they have a slightly lower perception about thereadiness of the environment (government policies, mass media and soforth), and the mean score for this item was 4.71, with a standarddeviation score of 1.71, indicating a fair amount of agreement among themembers of the group.To conclude, the E-learning providers who responded to the surveyperceived that they were generally ready to embark E-learning. However,they implied that the environmental factors need to be improved beforethe society/nation can be ready for E-learning.TABLE 27. Mean Score of Overall Readiness among ProvidersArea of Readiness Mean Standard Deviation(N=75)Personnel Readiness 6.52 2.28Content Readiness 6.16 2.53Technical Readiness 6.85 2.44Environmental Readiness 4.71 1.71Financial Readiness 5.81 2.45Overall E-Learning Readiness among ProvidersTo investigate the overall perceptions of readiness among all E-learningproviders who participated in this survey, an eye-ball observation of theoverall data indicated that these providers’ perceptions were in themoderate range of agreement (between values 4 and 7, on a 10-pointLikert scale), for four out of five areas presented in this survey. There areillustrated in Table 28 and in Figures 8 through 13.For personnel readiness, 40 respondents from the group (53.3 percent)indicated a moderate rating. Another 25 respondents (33.3 percent)scored on the higher end (between values 8 and 10, on the 10-point Likertscale), and the remaining 10 respondents (13.3 percent) indicated a lowperception (between values 1 and 3).When asked to rate content readiness, the group continued to respondsomewhere between the moderate and high values (between values 4 and10, on a 10-point Likert scale). There were 39 respondents who had amoderate perception about their content readiness (52.7 percent), whileanother 23 respondents (31.1 percent) indicated a higher perception oftheir organisation’s readiness for E-learning content. The remaining 12Joint Study by MEWC and OUM 42