Effects of COVID-19 in E-learning on higher education institution students: the group comparison between male and female

Arfan Shahzad (), Rohail Hassan, Adejare Yusuff Aremu (), Arsalan Hussain () and Rab Nawaz Lodhi ()
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Arfan Shahzad: Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
Adejare Yusuff Aremu: Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
Arsalan Hussain: Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
Rab Nawaz Lodhi: UCP Business School, University of Central Punjab

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2021, vol. 55, issue 3, No 2, 805-826

Abstract: Abstract In response to the emerging and ever solution to the COVID-19 outbreak. This study proposes a theoretical framework based on literature and model to determined E-learning portal success. The study compared males and females to E-learning portal usage. The study objective is to check the difference between male and female E-learning portals’ accessibility among the students’ perspective. The study included service quality, system quality, information quality, user satisfaction, system use, and E-learning portal success. The empirical data of 280 students participated from the different universities of Malaysia through google surveys analyzed using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling. The study further divided the full model into two domains, which are female and male. In the male model, information quality and system quality have direct relationships with user satisfaction. Information quality also supported the relationship with system use. At the same time, there is a positive relationship between user satisfaction and E-learning portals. Likewise, in the female model, E-service quality and Information quality both are supported by system use and user satisfaction. Similarly, system quality has a positive relationship with user satisfaction, and user satisfaction has a positive relationship with E-learning portals. The study will be further helpful for the Malaysian universities policy-makers such as top management, ministry of higher education, Malaysian universities union in designing the policies and programs on E-learning Portal Success in the country. The findings of the study reveal that males and females have a different level of in terms of usage of towards E-learning portals in Malaysian Universities.

Keywords: E-learning portal; System quality; Information quality; Higher education institution; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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