Exploring Acceptance Towards Environmental Sustainability of Distance Education in Malaysia

Harizan Siti Haslina Md (), Hilmi Mohd. Faiz () and Atan Hanafi ()
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Harizan Siti Haslina Md: School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia
Hilmi Mohd. Faiz: School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia
Atan Hanafi: School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia

Management of Sustainable Development, 2016, vol. 8, issue 2, 17-24

Abstract: Global warming has been among the important focus in higher educational sector worldwide. However, distance education has not been gaining sufficient attention in environmental sustainability studies of higher educational field. The overlooked dimension of sustainability in delivering courses through distance education mode has triggered a need for further understanding, in the way distance education could be acknowledged as an environmentally sustainable learning option by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The study attempted to explore the acceptance of distance education as environmentally sustainable option among distance learners who were currently enrolled in distance education programmes in public universities located within the northern region of Malaysia. The results found that the students expressed their acceptance in the favourable manner from cognitive, affective, and conative aspects. The findings are expected to broaden the sustainability attributes of distance education and to benefit higher educational policy makers, universities’ administrators, and public at large by providing evidences for environmental sustainability of distance education.

Keywords: Distance education; global warming; higher education; lifelong learning; online learning; environment; sustainable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/msd-2017-0003

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