Journal Article

Level of Acceptance of E-Learning Courses for Upgrading Digital Skill Sets Among Built Environment Professionals

Shang, Gao, Pheng, Low Sui, Jing, Khoo Wen

2024

Overview

E-learning has emerged as a new way of training employees, making the digital upgrading process more efficient and economically viable. This study aimed to assess the perceptions of built environment (BE) professionals concerning e-learning courses aimed at digital upskilling and to identify the positive and negative influences on the level of acceptance of such e-learning courses. Having identified the influencing factors, a self-completed questionnaire was a good approach for this study. A questionnaire was distributed to BE professionals in Singapore. Over four weeks from the middle of December 2022 to early January 2023, 78 valid responses were collected. The results indicated that individual demographics (such as age, gender, and education level) other than years of computer experience using e-learning do not encourage or deter BE professionals from accepting e-learning courses. This study also identified fifteen positive factors that increase the level of acceptance, with the top-rated factors being usefulness to a BE professional’s job scope, increased efficiency at work, potential pay increment, and supportive work culture. This study also identified ten significant negative factors, with the most important ones being cost, compatibility issues with work systems, and negative instructor characteristics.

• Publisher: MDPI AG
• Subject: Built environment / Construction standards / Demographics / digital skills / Distance learning / e-learning / Employee development / Employees / influencing factors / Learning / Online education / Online instruction / Professionals / Self completed questionnaires / Singapore / Skills / Technology Acceptance Model / Trends / Urban environments / Work environment / Workers / Workforce