Title: Suitability elements of technology enabled/enhanced active learning for engineering students

Authors: Nur Farha bte Hassan; Saifullizam bin Puteh; Amanina binti Muhamad Sanusi; Nan Nurul Hidayah binti Megat Salleh

Addresses: Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Johor, Malaysia ' Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Johor, Malaysia ' Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Johor, Malaysia ' Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Johor, Malaysia

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to identify the suitability elements for each domain of the technology enabled/enhanced active learning for engineering students. The integrated research of learning domains are blended learning, collaborative learning, practical learning, interactive learning and online learning that will help the students' master various aspects of the engineering knowledge to improve their employability skills when they enter in the high-tech job market. Data were collected from questionnaires completed by 678 final-year undergraduate engineering students enrolled at a Malaysian technical university. This study focuses on the technology active learning environment to identify learning platforms that are effective for inculcating innovative concepts, which may help students perform well in their studies. The values of relevant indicators were obtained from the analysed data of the domains using mean score, mean measure, and correlation coefficient. TEAL has five domains with 39 elements; the analysis results for each domain show that the items are relevant. There is a high degree of agreement and strong correlation coefficient. It is imperative to implement the TEAL approach in the engineering fields, as it is effective in improving the students' clearer understanding of their fields to applied technologies in practical work to gain their skills.

Keywords: technology enabled/enhanced active learning; TEAL; platform learning; engineering students; technical university; Rasch measurement model.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPSPM.2024.142341

International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management, 2024 Vol.14 No.3/4, pp.354 - 370

Received: 21 Mar 2020
Accepted: 17 Nov 2020
Published online: 25 Oct 2024 *

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