Digital Adoption in New Normal Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning: Exploring Assorted Trials in Malaysia HEIs

Abstract

Malaysia higher education institutions were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic like other countries globally, most of universities and colleges in which they were not fully prepared of what will come to teaching and learning. This is resulted to adopt the new vision of education called remote teaching and learning through digital adoption. This research aimed to explore factors that influence Malaysians’ HEIs Digital Adoption in New Normal Emergency Remote teaching and learning. The quantitative approach was adopted to collect information from 200 participants purposively selected from higher education institution in Malaysia. The findings indicated that perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness and HEI supports influencing Malaysians’ HEIs digital adoption in new normal emergency remote teaching and learning. The result of a convergent validity indicated measures or indicators correlates positively with other indicator of the same construct consists of t-statistics 3.377, 3.366 and 2.154 with p=value (0.000, 0.001 and 0.001) respectively. The research recommended that upgrading the level of qualification and training of faculty members in distance education programs at the university on the latest methods and modern technological systems in the field of digital learning and distance education; to provide a distinguished educational level in various theoretical and applied disciplines.