The Contribution of Research Research Question Research Objective

1.9. Intellectual framework

Recently, Web based teaching and learning technologies have been used in most of developed countries to gain some of the advantages offered by this technology. On the contrary, implementation of this technology in developing countries is rare and most of these implementations are restricted to Web based teaching and learning technology with HTML format. This research will try to identify some of the advantages offered by this technology for delivering teaching at a university in a developing country. In this research, the researcher will try to examine the use of Web based teaching and learning technology at a university in a developed country and the result will be used to examine the use of Web based teaching and learning technology at a university in a developing country. To examine the use of this technology in two different countries, in different stages of development, the researcher will examine maturity with IT and, student and staff expectation. To analyse student and staff expectation, conceptual frameworks will be used. The conceptual framework used to analyse the potential use of this technology is based on a unified conceptual framework consisting of nine principles of virtual team by Lipnack and Stamps 1997, conversational framework by Laurillard 1996 and a model of WWW-based learning by Reeves 1997. These frameworks will be explained in detail in Chapter 2.

1.10. The Contribution of Research

The aim of this research is to explore the potential advantages offered by Web-based teaching and learning technology, based on research at Salford University, were this technology to be implemented at Sanata Dharma University. This research will try to list enabling characteristics for Web based teaching and learning technology based on research at Salford University, and what may inhibits and enable implementation of web-based teaching and learning technology at Sanata Dharma University. The research may be contributed to the knowledge of Web based teaching and learning implementation.

1.11. Research Question

Research questions of this research are • How does Web-based teaching and learning technology help or support to deliver teaching at Salford University? • What are enabling and inhibiting characteristics associated with the implementation of Web-based teaching and learning technology at Salford University? • How does Web-based teaching and learning technology help or support to deliver teaching at Sanata Dharma University? • What are enabling and inhibiting characteristics associated with the implementation of Web-based teaching and learning technology at Sanata Dharma University?

1.12. Research Objective

Research Objectives of this research are as follow: • To understand literature of Web based teaching and learning technology usage. • To examine the usage of Web-based teaching and learning technology to help or support to deliver teaching at Salford University. • To list enabling and inhibiting characteristics associated with the implementation of Web-based teaching and learning technology at Salford University. • To try to implement Web-based teaching and learning technology at Sanata Dharma University. • To examine the usage of Web-based teaching and learning technology to help or support to deliver teaching at Sanata Dharma University. • To list enabling and inhibiting characteristics associated with the implementation of Web-based teaching and learning technology at Sanata Dharma University. • To develop practical guidelines for the use of Web based teaching and learning technology at Sanata Dharma University and in universities in Indonesia in general.

1.13. The Assumption of Research