The Social Media Adoption in Human-Computer Interface Course at Politeknik Mukah

Abstract

Adopting social media in learning environments becomes one of the major challenges among students and academic staff in Politeknik Mukah, Sarawak (PMU) with no official support, guidance, exposure, or any teaching method provided. With the social media influence, students are unable to focus on teaching and learning sessions at PMU. Hence, the research aims to discover the perception of social media adoption among students, evaluate the readiness of social media adoption and identify hindering factors to adopting social media in a learning environment among students who took the Human-Computer Interface Course. Data were obtained using the survey method and analysis using SPSS 26 including descriptive and a total of 33 students participated in the survey. The results show the highest mean that shows students' readiness to adopt social media for education. The result of this study reveals the trends, perceptions, students' readiness, and hindering factors in adopting social media for educational purposes, particularly at PMU.