e-learning readiness - Asia Pacific Region - Open University Malaysia

espondents (16.2 percent) held perceptions that fell under the lowestlevel (between values 1 and 3) on the 10-point Likert scale. It isinteresting to note that almost all of these E-learning providers, that is, 68respondents (91.8 percent) indicated a more positive perception (scoringbetween values 4 and 10) about technical readiness at their organisations.Only six respondents (8.1 percent) thought they were not technicallyready to provide E-learning at their organisations.For environmental readiness for E-learning, the majority of therespondents (52 respondents, or 70.3 percent) gave moderate ratings.There were four respondents (5.4 percent) who recorded higherperception values (between values 8 and 10, on a 10-point Likert scale),and another group (18 respondents, or 24.3 percent) indicated the lowestperception values (between values 1 and 3).Finally, for financial readiness, the group again recorded a more positiveperception about their organisations’ readiness to provide E-learning.There were 40 respondents (54.8 percent) who believed that theirorganisations were moderately ready to finance E-learning, while another20 respondents (27.4 percent) said that their organisations are very readyto finance E-learning. The remaining 13 respondents (17.8 percent)thought that their respective organisations were not ready to finance E-learning initiatives at their organisations.Joint Study by MEWC and OUM 43