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

3.3 percent, mentioned that they used the computer to access materialsfrom the e-library (see Table 54).Since the receivers are all students or trainees, one would expect them touse Internet facilities available at their institution of learning more oftenthan at other places. However, the findings reflect that this was not thecase. The data presented in Table 55 show that a higher percentage ofstudents (39.5 percent) accessed the Internet at home. Only 25.3 percentaccessed the Internet at school/college/university. About 23.7 percentwent to cyber cafés for these facilities. Table 55 presents the Internet useamong receivers.TABLE 55. Internet Use among ReceiversDescriptionPlace of Internet AccessFrequency(N = 4625)Percentage(%)Home 1829 41.6Cyber café 1098 25.0School/college/university 1172 26.7Work place 273 6.2Other 22 0.5Total 4394 100.0TABLE 56. Internet Connection at HomeDescriptionFrequency(N = 4625)Percentage(%)Yes 2596 56.1No 2029 43.9Total 4625 100.0Out of those who have computers at home, about half (56.1 percent)stated that they have Internet connection at home (see Table 56).The data presented in Table 57 show that the majority of receivers choseto use dial-up (78.0 percent) as their mode to connect to the Internetcompared with other modes. Streamyx was the second most frequentlyused mode (17.2 percent).With regards to the channel of communication receivers liked to use, ahigh percentage of receivers indicated a liking for SMS (85.8 percent), e-mail (83.5 percent) and face-to-face (76.4 percent). About half of thereceivers chat on the Internet (57.2 percent) as a mode of communication.These results concur with the earlier findings on popular use of computerwhere a high percentage of the learners (72.2 percent) stated that theyJoint Study by MEWC and OUM 75