ICH 2017
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Item Applying the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to Understand Adaptation of e- learning in Alternative Higher Education Sector in Sir Lanka, Case Study: The Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education (SLIATE).(International Conference on the Humanities (ICH), 2017 Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Jayathilake, M.V.M.; Jayawardhana, R.K.S.The advancement of the Internet has led to remarkable changes in several aspects of our lives in this century. The field of education is one of them. It has made a paradigm shift from teacher-centered to learner-centered education. That offers unique advantages to both educators and students. Students have increasing opportunities to access and interact both with materials and classmates. Along with this paradigm shift, understanding of students’ e-learning behavioral intention is urgently needed for creating effective learner-centered education. Further higher educational institutions have made substantial investments in the adoption of e-learning to enhance their learning and teaching activities. However, these systems are not used by the students with their fullest capabilities. Therefore, understanding the critical factors behind the adoption and acceptance of technology is a prime concern in developing countries like Sri Lanka. The purpose of the study is to identify the determinants of students’ acceptance of online learning and to investigate how these determinants can shape students’ intention to use Learning Management Systems. A conceptual framework based on the TAM. Primary data collection is done by using a questionnaire. The sample is selected from the students in SLIATE according to Krejcie & Morgan table. The sample size was 254. The results reveal the relationship of alternative higher education students’ behavioral intention to use the LMS with attitude, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, self-efficacy, subjective norm and system accessibility. Among those factors attitude, self-efficacy, and subjective norms were identified to be significant. The findings of this study help to provide insights into the best ways to promote e-learning acceptance among students, which provides practical implications for policy makers, practitioners, and developers in successful e-learning systems implementation.Item Overcoming fissures in adopting Digital Humanities in ESL classrooms: A hybridized approach.(International Conference on the Humanities (ICH), 2017 Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Abeysinghe, A.Digital humanities have changed human perceptions about domains of traditional humanity principles as data is becoming more preferable over literature. The role of this transformation has created a digitized culture in the way humans handle information and this trend has become a massive boom in ESL (English as a Second Language) based e-learning centres. With the development of Information Communication Technology (ICT), using digital humanities in ESL classes is essential to make language teaching and learning interesting and interactive as teachers can use web-based stories, computer games, podcasting, listening to online news and use of weblogs to encourage students to learn the language. These practices change students’ learning processes in the ESL classroom because they can use a multiplicity of communication channels and social networking in their learning process to encourage and make language learning interesting. Nevertheless, learning English in a digital culture has caused learners in hasty hitherto futile adoption of e-learning materials causing a snag in this embrace. Potential solutions to these include a hybridized culture whereby students gain sufficient knowledge via traditional practices and later using online resources as verification systems for their productiveness, using online chats and participating in forums and virtual classrooms with online mentors and preferring materials with minimum presentational designs over high graphic content. Therefore, this research paper describes how this hybridized approach could be implemented using quantitative analysis acquired through ESL student sampling. Then questionnaires and surveys are used to identify how contemporary students perceive this transformation. Then a system that could be implemented in all demographic and socio-cultural background is presented. Finally, this system’s productivity is evaluated and fine-tuned.