1) The document discusses a study exploring student usage of the Blendspace web platform at a public university in Sabah, Malaysia. 2) The study examined what types of web users the students were, how they interacted with web 2.0 tools on Blendspace, and what challenges they faced using Blendspace. 3) The findings showed that most students were intermediate web users who would share and use content, and the main challenges were difficulty commenting, inability to see main course topics compared to a learning management system, and messy interfaces with many activities.

1. Exploring the Usage and Problems of
Blendspace Web 2.0 Software in a Public
University in Sabah
By:
Associate Professor Dr. Tan Choon Keong
(UMS)

2. INTERACTION WITH AUDIENCE
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3. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. What type of web users are the students belong to?
2. How do they behave when they interact using Web 2.0 tools
on Blendspace platform?
3. What are the challenges faced by the students when using
Blendspace platform?

4. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Diffusion of Innovation Theory
(E.M. Rogers, 1962)

5. Model/Concepts Category of Users
Diffusion of Innovation
Theory (E.M. Rogers,
1962)
Innovators (2.5%) and
Early Adopters
(13.5%)
Early Majority
(34%) and
Late Majority
(34%)
Laggards (16%)
Usage of Web 2.0
Model (Roger Hudson,
2008)
Web Evangelist Web Workers Web Users
Usage of Web 2.0
(present research)
Advanced Web Users Intermediate
Web Users
Passive Web
Users
Important concepts Create, Use & Share Use & Share Use
REVIEW OF LITERATURE

6. SAMPLING PROCEDURE
1.The study uses the case study approach
2. Two samples were chosen purposively
- Sample 1: 57 students taking TG10403 GIS
- Sample 2: 59 students taking TT00703 Computer
and Multimedia in Education
3. Both courses ran concurrently
4. Platform chosen was Blendspace hosting various
multimedia learning content (video/photos) incorporating
Web 2.0 tools (padlet/youtube/etc.)

7. DATA COLLECTION INSTRUMENTS
1.Survey using questionnaire
- survey types of web user
- survey usage of Web 2.0 via Blendspace
2. Interview
- problems using Blendspace

8. RESPONDENTS’ BACKGROUND

9. FINDINGS – Types of Web Users

10. TG10403 GIS
Category of Users (n = 57)
Advanced Web Users Intermediate Web Users Passive Web
Users
Create, Share and Use
(photos, videos, comments)
Share and Use (photos,
videos, comments)
Use (photos,
videos, comments)
7 (12.3%) 40 (70.2%) 10 (17.5%)
TT00703 Computer and Multimedia
Category of Users (n = 59)
Advanced Web Users Intermediate Web Users Passive Web
Users
Create, Share and Use
(photos, videos, comments)
Share and Use (photos,
videos, comments)
Use (photos,
videos, comments)
10 (16.9%) 37 (62.8%) 12 (20.3%)
FINDINGS – Types of Web Users

11. Advanced
Web Users
Intermediate
Web Users
Passive Web
Users
Made comment on
web page or
blog/Blendspace
TG10403 6 (n=7) 86% 35 (n=40) 88% 8 (n=10) 80%
TT00703 9 (n=10) 90% 30 (n=37) 81% 11 (n=12) 92%
Advanced Web
Users
Intermediate
Web Users
Passive Web
Users
Posted photo/video
on YouTube / FB /
Whatsapp / padlet
TG10403 7 (n=7) 100% 37 (n=40) 93% 8 (n=10) 80%
TT00703 10 (n=10) 100% 36 (n=37) 97% 12 (n=12) 100%
Advanced Web
Users
Intermediate
Web Users
Passive Web
Users
Commented on
photo/video (eg
Blogspot/Youtube)
TG10403 5 (n=7) 71% 27 (n=40) 68% 4 (n=10) 40%
TT00703 5 (n=10) 50% 22 (n=37) 60% 6 (n=12) 50%
FINDINGS – Usage of Web 2.0 Tools

12. Problems Using Blendspace Courses Frequency (%)
Difficulty in putting comments
TG10403 (n=57) 13 (23%)
TT00703 (n=59) 17 (29%)
Cannot see main topics of the course
compared to LMS
TG10403 (n=57) 48 (84%)
TT00703 (n=59) 49 (83%)
Quite messy when there are too many
activities
TG10403 (n=57) 39 (68%)
TT00703 (n=59) 44 (75%)
FINDINGS – Problems Using Blendspace

13. SOME SCREEN SHOTS

14. SOME SCREEN SHOTS

15. SOME SCREEN SHOTS

16. SOME SCREEN SHOTS