THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOOGLE MEETS, BLUE JEANS, CISCO WEBEX AND ZOOM : THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE DISTANCE LEARNING SUPPORT TOOLS

Abstract

Video conferencing can be used to create a distance education such as flipped classroom and online teaching and learning. Video conferencing brings education to a brandnew world which is allow students to be accessed from anywhere with not out. At the same time, it will eliminate the barriers of the traditional classroom. This study helps the decision makers of the higher education institutions to have a better understanding of the effectiveness Zoom, Google meets, Cisco Webex and BlueJeans by their study. It will help in measuring the level of student’s acceptance to the earlier mentioned application. The study was carried out by distributing a survey in the Google-Form questionnaires to 200 students from Diploma Information Technology (Digital Technology) (DDT) in the Department of Information Technology & Communication, Ungku Omar Polytechnic. The findings favour to zoom and Cisco Webex were presented a lot of positives over Google meets and BlueJeans.