Scope of Research Intellectual framework

Chapter 1 Introduction

The World Wide Web WWW is increasingly being used to provide teaching, as the characteristics of Internet to deliver of a learning environment offers some advantages and of course it also has some disadvantages. The use of computer to deliver teaching also offers some new methods and media to provide a more effective balance between active learning and mere attending Laurillard, 1996. The WWW is just a vehicle for the design and delivery of a learning environment. WWW does not guarantee learning any more than the presence of a library on campus guarantees learning Reeves, 1997. Actually, the Web is a resource, which must be designed to support effective instructional dimensions Reeves et al., 1997 in Reeves, 1997. Achieving the advantages offered by implementation of Web-based teaching and learning technology is a very interesting area to be researched. Salford University is a university in the United Kingdom, one of the developed countries in the world. The Salford University is mature in its use of Internet technology, and offers students free access to the Internet on campus. Currently, this university is using Web-based teaching and learning technology in some subjects, to gain some of the advantages offered by this technology. Sanata Dharma University is a university in Indonesia, which is one of the developing countries in the world. This university also supports students to have access to the Internet with some limitations. One of the limitations is this access to Internet is not free for students.

1.8. Scope of Research

The researcher is very interested to conduct research to find the opportunity to gain the advantages offered by Web-based teaching and learning technology at Sanata Dharma University, based on research at Salford University using this technology. The researcher will try to list enabling characteristics for Web-based teaching and learning with maturity with IT, and student and staff expectations. The information will be obtained from the experiences of students, who are masters level students at Salford University, and the experience of a lecturer, who has used Web-based teaching and learning technology. Based on enabling characteristics of Web-based teaching and learning and experiences of students and a lecturer at Salford University, the researcher will try to find out what may inhibit and enable implementation of Web based teaching and learning technology at Sanata Dharma University in Indonesia. The information will be obtained from lectures and students at Sanata Dharma University in Indonesia. A simple web-based teaching module will be developed and it will be tested on some students at Sanata Dharma University, who have studied the same module using traditional methods. The result of this research will be used to explore the potential of Web-based teaching and learning technology were it to be implemented at Sanata Dharma University. Figure 1.1. The Scope of Research . EVALUATING Virtual Organising 19992000 - A Web based teaching and learning module at University of Salford EVALUATING Introduction to Database Systems - A simple Web based teaching and learning module at University of Sanata Dharma Literature Review A unified conceptual framework Maturity with IT A unified conceptual framework Maturity with IT Findings Guidelines Findings Guidelines

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