The impact of technology on learning environment

The impact of technology on learning environmentI.Abstract Using information technology in university education has brought many impacts on teaching and learning. It plays an important role in the consolidation process of learning and teaching. Moreover, applying technology has opened up many opportunities for education and access to educational resources beyond the traditional methods available. Besides, if not used properly, information technology also brought about negative impact of learning and teaching. This report aimed to point out the advantages and disadvantages, amenities and limitations in applying information technology in university education from which to find recommendations to help students, as well as teachers use information technology most effectively. This researcher administered an anonymous survey to 110 students and 20 teachers in NEU, HNU and RES. A survey was created containing basic questions about the impact of technology on university education in Hanoi, Vietnam. According to our results, the majority of students and teachers spend from 3 to 5 hours per day on using technology for learning and teaching. Besides, most of interviewee believed that using technology bring more advantage than disadvantage on learning and teaching.

RESEARCH PROJECT

The impact of technology on

learning environment

Table of Contents

I Abstract 2

II Introduction 3

III Literature Review 4

1 Definition of education technology 4

2 Importance of technology on teaching and learning 4

3 The advantages and disadvantages of using technology on learning 5

3.1 Advantages 5

3.2 Disadvantages 6

IV Methodology 7

1 Participant 7

2 Procedue 7

3 Data Analysis 8

V Major Finding and Discussion 9

5.1 The real attitudes of student and teacher about using technology on learning environment 9 5.1.1 Usage of technology in universities 9

5.1.2 Kinds of technology often used in classroom 11

5.1.3 Consumption of technology per day 12

5.1.4 Barrier when they applying technology in university 13

5.2 The advantages and disadvantages of using technology on learning environment 14

5.2.1 Advantages 14

5.2.2 Disadvatages 16

VI Recommendations 17

1 For students 17

2 For teacher 18

3 Other recommendations: 18

VII Conclusion 19

VIII References 20

IX Appendix 23

1 Questionnaire 23

2 Interview survey 26

3 Summarize data 26

I Abstract

Using information technology in university education has brought many impacts onteaching and learning It plays an important role in the consolidation process of learningand teaching Moreover, applying technology has opened up many opportunities foreducation and access to educational resources beyond the traditional methodsavailable Besides, if not used properly, information technology also brought aboutnegative impact of learning and teaching This report aimed to point out the advantagesand disadvantages, amenities and limitations in applying information technology inuniversity education from which to find recommendations to help students, as well asteachers use information technology most effectively This researcher administered ananonymous survey to 110 students and 20 teachers in NEU, HNU and RES A surveywas created containing basic questions about the impact of technology on universityeducation in Hanoi, Vietnam According to our results, the majority of students andteachers spend from 3 to 5 hours per day on using technology for learning and teaching.Besides, most of interviewee believed that using technology bring more advantage thandisadvantage on learning and teaching

II Introduction

The 21st century is considered as the development of the technology era Technology isone of the fastest growing fields and have the greatest impact to human life Informationand communication technologies holds a very important role in the business (Keser,Huseyin, Ozdamli, 2011), Vietnam was viewed as the solid foundation in service for thecountry's sustainable development , navigate to one of the countries with economy,politics, security, culture, education, social stability, good for Southeast Asia and theworld In recent times, the technology has reached a new level of progress and are usedeverywhere, including classes The traditional form of education is being added andgradually replaced by the digital education model The technology is becomingincreasingly important and influence to human life (Christen, A., 2009)

For these reason, people should access to knowledge by applying technology to keep

up with the latest developments By using technology, learning is no longer restricted bytime and place The use of ICT is considered as a symbol of the new era in education.(Kurt, 2010) In addition, ICT also changes the paradigm of thinking, enrich the currenteducational model and create new training for education

Technology offers many benefits for people in every field, especially in education, but if

we do not use it the right way, it will encounter the disadvantage As Braford et al, 2000claimed the technology does not ensure the quality and effectiveness of learning Somedisadvantages including as cheating arise, abuse, spent too much time for technology,used with the wrong purpose,

In this report, the researcher will point out how technology affects university education in

Ha Noi, Viet Nam and put forward a number of recommendations to the most effectivetechnology use based on the survey with students and teachers at profit universities andtraining centers The main purpose of this research is to provide a perspective for reader

to help them better understand about the usage of technology in education and helpthem find a solution to use technology properly and efficiently.

This report following three main research questions:

1 What is the real situations of using technology in universities in Ha Noi, Viet Nam?

2 How technology impact on university education in Ha Noi, Viet Nam?

3 What are some recommendations to use technology effectively?

III Literature Review

1 Definition of education technology

The concept of educational technology is viewed as the foundation to provide thehypothetical premise to the examination and practice in education There are manydefinitions related to educational technology Following to the Association of educationalcommunications and technology (AECT, 2008), educational technology is characterized

as the study and moral routine with regards to encourage learning and enhancingexecution by making, utilizing and dealing with the procedures and assets innovationtechnolog line (Richey et al 2008) In another research, Luppicini (2005) characterizeseducational technology as an approach to solve the problem according to the purpose,utilization of apparatuses, procedures, hypotheses and strategies from numerous fields

of information such as outlining, creating and investigating of HR, changing instructionframeworks to enhancing the social and instructive foundation

2 Importance of technology on teaching and learning

The world is changing, information technology is increasingly focused and developed Inparticular, in the past few decades, information technology has been widely used and

and teaching aids The technology tools for education not only include computers, butalso include hardware such as projectors, scanners, cell phones, printers, cameras,video recorders, … handy with the right programming applications Each technologyinstrument, exclusively or in combination, can be connected in an assortment of focusedsettings including instructor drove exercises and child-initiated exercises (Nebraska

utilization of slide projectors, TVs, PC, radios, sound and video tapes, and so forth ininstructing and learning circumstances The coordination of innovation in the educatingand learning process is stated that it can increases the productivity of students andteachers as well as generates a large amount of information available Pelgrum (2001)identified a number of reasons why the technology by and large and PCs specifically can

be vital to the school The basic reasons including related economic benefit society,such as diminishing the cost of instruction, support industry computer, prepare thestudent foundation for their future Moreover, appying technology also helps universitybecome more attractive to their customers (Kozma, 2003)

3 The advantages and disadvantages of using technology on learning

3.1 Advantages

Plomp et.al (1996) has pointed out three main objectives of using technology onlearning environment as using of information technology with the goal of research, usingtechnology as aspects of a century law or profession and using ICT as a means foreducating In another research, Murphy (1995) summarizes the benefits of usingtechnology on education as follows: (1) development of society, (2) solving the problem,(3) instruction peer ( 4) working independently, and (5) exploration Technology plays animportant role in education The researchers showed the technology integrated into

mainstream classes, it supports higher education and increase abilitiy of students.Applying technology on education also has positive effects in learning new language andgradually becomes an indispensable tools in learning language (Tsou, Wang & Tzeng,2006) In another study with adolescents with difficult situation in Paris, Rachel CohenFrance (1999) showed that using computer can develop the ability of children, they candiscover and develop their writing language Thus, it can be said the technology bringsmany benefits for education, including both teaching and learning

3.2 Disadvantages

Besides the significant benefits of technology to education, the use of technology alsohas some disadvantages According Branford et al, "technology does not ensureeffective learning" technology and the use of improperly can hinder student learning Theuse of IT can make students easily distracted and confused The rational use hasincreased the motivation of students, but the students do not concentrate that is a bigdisadvantage As Ward (2004) pointed out, technology can make students be exposed

to reading materials and other types of documents but there is too much flow ofinformation, its may make them very easy to get distracted and ignorant , seize false andwrong information selectively Another disadvantage is the information technology canincrease the ability of students cheating (Shahla Simin et al, 2013) Smart phones can

be very easy to hide and use is not clear, especially students can easily copy-pasteinformation into their workouts Moreover, both students and teachers may lack of basicinformation knowledge and skills if they use it with wrong purpose (Smith & Broom,2003)

IV Methodology

1 Participant

The report was conducted with 110 students and 20 teachers in the National EconomicsUniversity, Hanoi University and RES - Reliable English School Moreover, 80 studentswere taken from two universities (60 students and 20 students from NEU and HNU) and

30 students were taken from RES english center and 20 teachers were gotten fromNEU

o Distributing questionnaires to 120 Students and teachers in university

and training corporate centers

o Data collection, data processing by Excel

o Report writing

o Presenting research

First, questionnaires were created based on literature review section and were designed

to suit with own purpose of this report The research questions guiding the analysispresented in this paper are:

 What is the real situations of using technology on learning environment?

 What are the advantages and disadvantage of using technology on learningenvironment?

 What are some recommendations to use technology effectively?

The first research question includes 5 items (questionnaire 4-7 and 10) used to measurethe real attitudes of students and teacher about using technology on learning Thesecond research question contains 4 items (questionnaire 8,9,11 and 12) used toanalyze the advantages and disadvantages of using technology on learningenvironment The last research question consists of 1 items (questionnaire 13) used tosuggest some way to use technology effectively Second, to distribute questionnaire, theauthor use both paper survey and online survey through Google docs This researcherchooses randomly university students at the NEU, HNU and RES to do this survey Tosave time study, the author used some social network such as Facebook, Instagram,

to send questionnaires links Half of the inquiries were replied by utilizing the on-lineadaptation and impartial factual predisposition was discovered when looking at thereactions of the two renditions After collecting complete data we aggregate them onMicrosoft Excel software and analysis, treatment of the data

3 Data Analysis

The researcher distributed 130 survey samples including 110 for students and 20 forteacher and collected 124 samples After receiving a questionnaire survey, the responserate was 91% of students and the response rate of teachers was 60% In general,students who do survey having aged from 19 to 21 with approximately 19% Male and81% Female

V Major Finding and Discussion

5.1 The real attitudes of student and teacher about using technology on learning environment

5.1.1 Usage of technology in universities

Nowadays, the technology has been developed and is widely used in many fields,especially education Through this report, we see more clearly the popularity anddevelopment of the technology in education, after collecting data about technology use,

we had to show them in the chart below

Chart 1: Usage of technology in universities

Looking at the bar chart, we can see that most students and teachers (86% of studentsand 75% of the teachers who do this survey) said that their universities are usingtechnology in learning and teaching It means that the technology is very common ineducation at the University Only a small portion of students and teachers surveyed said

that their universities have not yet to apply technology to the study, account for 14% ofthe students and 25% of teachers surveyed.

Although studying and teaching in the technology environment, not all students andteachers would also be satisfied with the use of technology in schools Based on thesurvey data, we have reviews and show it in the chart below

in university that we do survey have not yet good enough to satisfied the students Incontrast, the majority of teacher satisfied with the quality of the technology in theiruniversity with two-thirds of teachers (67%) of satisfaction and a third of the teacherswere not satisfied Throughout this question, we can see that the number of students

who are satisfied and not satisfied were constituted and the majority of teachers satisfiedwith quality of technology in their university.

5.1.2 Kinds of technology often used in classroom

Technology is considered as an instructional tool on business in general and education

in particularly Technology has integrated into classroom in so many ways In this report,

we had pointed out some kinds of technology often used in class and showed thedifference data about technology that often used in classroom

42.00%

45.00%

8.00%

5.00%

Types of technology used by students

Computer Cell phone Video recorder Projection screen Other

0.33

0.42

0.25Types of technology used by teachers

Computer Cell phone Video recorder Projection Screen Other

Chart 3: Kinds of technology that often used

This pie chart gives information about kinds of technology that often used in university

As is observed from the pie chart, we can see that the computer is the device are bothstudents and teachers use a variety of learning and teaching in the universities, with42% of the students and 33% teachers choose to use regularly Next, cellphone is the

device often used in learning with 45% of the students surveyed choose this answer.8% of students admitted that they often use video recorder in their studies and only 5%

of students said they frequently used the projection screen in the study , most teachersaccount for 42% asserted that they often use a projection screen in the teaching and25% of teachers choose answers other, which could mention the answers as they oftenuse the technology tools such as the digital equipment, digital network, internet services

or support software such as Microsoft Excel or Powerpoint

In conclusion, there are some difference between students and teachers in the choice ofusing the equipment This comes from their purpose use is different so the regular use of

a device is also different

5.1.3 Consumption of technology per day