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ITC 005 :
Measuring Augmented Reality Board Game for
Collaborative Learning Based on Technology Acceptance
Model (TAM)
ABSTRACT. The shape of education recently has heading toward collaborative learning by
taking an advantage of the technology advancement. The purpose of these study is
to examine the use of board game for collaborative learning based on Technology
Acceptance Model (TAM). This research study the relationship of these variable and
identified the regression among them. To achieve the objective of the study, an
augmented reality (AR) board game namely Art and Design Board Game (ADBG) has
been developed as the instrument used in this study. A questionnaire has been
employed as the main data collection tool and distribute to the student through Google
Form where N=35. According to the result of these study, all the hypothesis is
supported. The result of this study shows that collaborative learning (CL) has
significantly impact the perceive of usefulness (PU), perceive of ease of use (PEOU),
engagement (ENG) and intention to use board game (ITU) through use of board game
in context of Politeknik Muadzam Shah. The proposed framework can help educator
to create a strategy to facilitate the teaching and learning as well as to enhance the
collaborative learning.
1 INTRODUCTION
The world was shocked by the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic which has
changed the education landscape and it has brought about a new dynamic in the national
education system, and the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
institutions was no exception. TVET institutions have undergone a holistic educational
transformation. Among them, organizing teaching staff to take advantage of and integrate
online education technology and applications to ensure education continues. The use of ICT
in Teaching and Learning (T&L) for the purposes of engagement and collaboration is a
strategic priority for all educational institutions. Collaborative learning is an educational
approach to teaching and learning that involves groups of students working together to solve
a problem, complete a task or create a product. Collaborative learning activities are varied
and extensive, but most of them focus on students' exploration or application of course
material, rather than the instructor's presentation or explanation of it (Sumtsova et al., 2018).
Collaborative learning is a form of significant transition from a traditional instructor-
centered or lecture-centered environment in the lecture room to an active learning
environment centered on students. In collaborative learning, the process of
lecturing/listening and taking notes does not disappear completely, but it is present along
with other processes including discussion with students and active work with learning
materials (Zhang & Cui, 2018). Collaborative learning has been effective and has been
widely adopted across different disciplines, educational levels or age of groups. This
approach provides cognitive benefits such as increasing motivation to learn and improving
social skills that students need in preparation for the work profession. Therefore, in an effort
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to create collaborative learning, the researcher has developed the augmented reality Art and
Design Board Game (ADBG) as a collaborative learning strategy through mobile
applications. This is in line with the research carried out by (Jeong & Hmelo-Silver, 2018)
which stated that the use of computers and digital technologies can support collaborative
learning. Furthermore, it also can be implemented in synchronous or asynchronous learning
mode. As stated by (Ludvigsen & Mørch, 2010) which states that collaborative learning with
appropriate computer support can increase the interaction between students and teachers
and subsequently impact learning outcomes.
Educational games has been acknowledge for their advantage and give an impact on
learning mainly increase learning motivation, increase learning outcome, provide a new
learning environment and shape a new transformation in teaching and learning (Zeng; et al.,
2020). This includes analogue game (such as board game, card, puzzle) and digital (such
as video and simulation). Indeed, there are numerous studies has reported board game as
pedagogical tool has enhance student engagement (Yu; et al., 2021) (Grudpan; et al., 2021).
In addition, game-based learning techniques can also cause students to be more engage in
the learning session and also increase students' inquiry. The use of learning aids that have
interesting and interactive features can not only attract students to be more interested, more
focus but can also encourage them to carry out the process of self-learning voluntarily
without any coercion. Therefore, this study identifies student acceptance of the gamification
approach in teaching and learning and to measure the factors that affect its use through the
Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The ADBG was developed based on concept from a
popular snake and ladder board game. This application was developed to allow students to
play and at the same time do the revision. This study was carried out at Politeknik Muadzam
Shah which consisted of 35 students who enrolled in the DVG30093 Interaction Design
course. This paper is structured as follows. Part 2 will discuss the literature review and study
highlights, and part 3 will explain the theoretical framework as well as the methodology that
will be applied. Part 4 will discuss the results obtained through this study and part 5 will
conclude this paper.
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
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a) Positive interdependence consists of friends, there are clear tasks and objectives
and every
student has the knowledge to achieve goals (Ortiz et al., 2019)
b) Face-to-face interaction is happened when there is interaction between group
members and exchange functions to achieve the best results (Montellanos-solís
et al., 2021)
c) c) Individual responsibilities and individual evaluation. All members are
responsible for carrying out the tasks given (Rojas et al., 2019)
d) d) Social skills are practiced as proper communication, they solve their problems
in a constructive manner (Ortiz et al., 2019)
There are 6 approaches in collaborative learning that have received extensive attention from
researchers as reported in the study (Leeuwen & Janssen, 2019) :
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TAM was first developed from the Theory of Reason Action (TRA) by around concepts
acceptance of information technology by Ajzen & Fishbein (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980).
Subsequently this theory was developed Fred Davis on 1986. TAM is a model that is used
to predict user acceptance of technology based on two variables, namely perceive
usefulness (PU) and perceive of ease of use (PEOU) (Davis, 1869) as shown in Figure 1.
The goal of TAM is to provide a basis that can show the influence of external variables on
internal beliefs, attitudes and behavioural intentions These two constructs are belief
influence on intention to use board game for collaborative learning.
The PU in TAM refers to work productivity, performance and effectiveness. The PU
used in this study is the level of the teacher's belief that using a certain system can improve
his work performance. On the other hand, PEOU is defined as the degree of user confidence
that the system can be used easily and can be learned by oneself. In this study, PEOU is
defined as the level of user's belief that using the system does not require much effort. The
results of the study by (Chauhan et al., 2021) found that these two construct ( PU and
PEOU), attitude and symmetric flow are important factor in game industry. This shows that
a user will identify or try an application that is provided whether it is easy to use or otherwise
and further influence a user to continue to try or use the system or stop it.
Perceived
Usefulness
External Attitude
variable Behavioral
towards Actual Use
Intention
Perceived Using
Ease of Use
3. RESEARCH METHOD
This research uses a quantitative approach. Through this approach, it helps to
describe trends in the population or to explain the relationship between the study variables
(Creswell, 2011). The survey questionnaire was given to the participants in Session II
2021/2022 of study. A questionnaire with a 5-point Likert scale (1 for strongly disagree to 5
for strongly agree) was used in this study. In order to fulfill the objective of the research to
study variables in board games and evaluate the use of board games for learning, data from
the questionnaire was analyzed quantitatively.
3.1 Respondents
This study utilizes a questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale (1 for strongly disagree
to 5 strongly agree). The questionnaire was undergone modification and tuned with
reference to a pilot study and tested beforehand. The questionnaire consists of 21 items was
designed. The PU and PEOU item was adapted from (Al-Rahmi et al., 2015), the intention
to use board game are from (Kim, 2011), student engagement with 3 item was adapt from
(Gallini & Moely, 2003). Finally the collaborative learning item from (So & Brush, 2008).
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ADBG is a board game inspired by the traditional snake and ladder game but added
with a new element which is augmented reality (AR). The objective of the game is to collect
the highest score by answering the questions correctly in the fastest time. The ADBG
consists of a game board, question cards, 1 dice, 4 pawns and 1 instruction leaflet for
recording the player's score. This game can be played by two or more individuals or in teams.
Figure 2 below show the ADBG board game: This board game contains 30 squares or moves
to complete 1 round of the game. The player who arrives at the "Answer a question" box,
needs to scan the question card that acts as a marker.
A video about the question will be displayed and the player has to answer the question in 1
minute before the sand in the clock runs out. The player has to answer the questions
correctly and the score will be recorded.
The main objective of this study was for a discussion to develop a framework for
measuring the use of board games through collaborative learning based on Technology
Acceptance Model (TAM) in the context of Politeknik Muadzam Shah. The variable in this
study are: perceived of ease of use, perceived usefulness, engagement, intention to use and
collaborative learning. Figure 2 below show the proposed conceptual framework for this
study:
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Perceived
Usefulness H1
Perceived H2 H4
Intention to use Collaborative
Ease of Use
board game Learning
H3
Engagement
The main research question in this study is to examine the factors that affect the use of
board games through TAM to improve collaborative learning.
This research will test the following hypotheses:
H1: There is a significant relationship between perceive usefulness and intention to use
board game
H2: There is a significant relationship between perceive of ease of use and intention to use
board game
H3: There is a significant relationship between engagement and intention to use board game
H4: There is a significant relationship between intention to use board game and collaborative
learning
PU 1
PEOU 0.610 1
EN 0.279 0.500 1
ITU 0.503 0.424 0.870 1
CL 0.391 0.443 0.718 0.749 1
H1: There is a significant relationship between perceive usefulness and intention to use
board game
Based on Table 2, it’s clearly shown the positive relationship between perceived of
usefulness and perceive of ease of use (r=0.610, p<0.01). The perceived of usefulness and
engagement show a weak relationship at (r=0.279, p<0.01). A positive and significant
correlation also found between perceived of usefulness and intention to use board game
(BI) at (r=0.818, p<0.001) and between perceived of usefulness and collaborative learning
also indicate a positive correlation (r=0.503, p<0.01). The variable between perceive of
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usefulness and collaborative learning show a strong relationship indicate in the correlation
(r=0.391, p<0.001). Overall, the relationships between perceived of usefulness and
intention to use board game is positive.
H2: There is a significant relationship between perceive of ease of use and intention to use
board game
H3: There is a significant relationship between engagement and intention to use board game
In this study, the result show there is a positive relationship between engagement
and perceive of usefulness (r=0.500, r<0.001), between perceive of ease of use ( r=0.543,
r<0.01). Engagement and Intention to use show a strong relationship where (r=0.870,
p<0.001). The result also reveal relationship between engagement and collaborative
learning is substantial positive (r=0.718, p<0.001). Overall, the relationship found between
engagement and others construct is positive.
H4: There is a significant relationship between intention to use board game and collaborative
learning
Pearson Correlation result of collaborative learning through board game use positively
and significantly correlates with Intention to use board game (ITU) at (r=0.638, p<0.001).
Correlation also found between collaborative learning and engagement at (r=0.718,
p<0.001). Positive relationship also found between collaborative learning and perceive of
ease of use ( r=0.443, p<0.001) and perceive of usefulness at (r=0.638, p<0.01). Overall,
the relationship found between collaborative learning and the others construct is positive.
A linear regression was run to predict ITU, based on PU, PEOU and ENG. Overall
regression was statically significant (F(3,31) = 69.897,p<0.00) with a R² =0.871. Participant
predicted ITU is equal to 1.058 0.209(PU), 1.171 (PEOU), 0.902 (ENG). It was found that
PU significantly predicted ITU (β=0.209, p<0.00). Therefore, the first hypothesis is positive
and supported. The second hypothesis also positive and supported as the regression
indicate PEOU was significantly predict ITU where (β=1.171, p<0.004). Thus, the second
hypothesis is positive and supported. Lastly, ENG shown a significantly predicted ITU
(β=0.902, p<0.000). Therefore, the third hypothesis is also supported. All 3 variables
statically significantly to the prediction.
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5. CONCLUSION
This study investigates the 5 variables in term of collaborative learning. The variable
was perceived of usefulness, perceive of ease of use, engagement, intention to use and
collaborative learning. All the hypothesis was tested and accepted. According to the result,
it can be concluded that the use of board game can enhance the engagement of the student
and lecturer and enhance the collaborative learning. By using these ADBG board game, it
can encourage learning by gamification and generate enjoyment among the student. An
observation during the intervention show that student can interact with the peer,
communicate and become an active learner. In addition, this process has increase student
motivation in learning. Consequently, these interaction has impact student learning benefit
(Al-Rahmi et al., 2014). Result prove that ADBG can enhancing and facilitates collaborative
learning. For future learning, may involve a larger sample of participant. Apart that, future
work are advises to measure factor that impacting student learning performance in
Malaysian Higher Institution.
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