The Adoption of Microsoft Teams Among Lecturers of Polytechnic Kuching Sarawak

Abstract

As a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institution, Polytechnic Kuching Sarawak (PKS) has made use of Microsoft Teams (MT) to create a virtual learning environment for its teachers. The utilisation of MT as a virtual learning environment has the potential to completely revolutionise the way that lecturers at PKS teach and interact with their students. This study aims to measure the adoption as well as evaluating the effectiveness of MT among PKS lecturers to get recommendations regarding the adoption of MT for future improvement. The 5-point Likert scale survey, which includes 30 variables focusing on analysing MT use in education and the effectiveness of it was analysed using SPSS Version 27. The result shows that MT is highly adopted among PKS lecturers in not only teaching and learning but also for other tasks because it is easily accessible, interesting interface, design and the support provided by the institutions which helps in navigating the platform and fully utilise the features. Hence, the utilisation of MT should be maintained and further improved in parallel with the improvement of the campus internet connection and should not be simply dropped in replacement with other online platform without considering the values it had brought us these few years.