Teaching and Learning Financial Management Course Using e-Whiteboard

Abstract

It is clear that the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted all economic sectors which include the educational sector particularly on the teaching and learning activities. The lecturers are facing the challenges to deliver the courses and hence challenging in choosing the right assessment method to measure the student understanding on the particular courses. Most importantly, most of the lectures are conducted online. To reduce the gap, an e-whiteboard was introduced and used by the lecturers of the financial management course. E-whiteboard is a central board used to gather all the elements of teaching and learning, assessment and curriculum on the financial management course throughout the semester. It combines the features of three different apps all into one single piece of tool, including the storage, quiz and assessment and classroom. It aims to encourage the teaching and learning process in a conducive environment. The e-whiteboard uses a modified Attracting, Informing, Positioning and Delivering model (AIPD model) as a base to deliver the financial management course to the student and a platform for the teaching activities. A number of 34 questionnaire surveys were collected among the accounting students of Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and observations during the lectures and tutorials were adopted as the mechanisms to examine the students’ experience during the e-whiteboard assessment. The findings show that financial management courses can indeed be taught in a more innovative and effective way in order to draw the interest of accounting students to take up more technical courses in the future. For the lecturer, it is a convenient and friendly user tool in delivering the financial management course and at anywhere and anytime. In addition, the e-whiteboard helps the lecturer to access the capability and creativity of the students in using technology. The e-whiteboard could be improved by adding the element of offline implementation as for the rural area usage.