The Islamic banking and finance student information-seeking behaviour

Abstract

Information-seeking is process or activity as a human to searching and gather the data to collect information that referred to human resources or in technology sources. The purpose of this research is to find out how the information-seeking behaviour toward courses of Islamic banking and Finance. By doing this research, this paper investigates how know the sources of information-seeking behaviour toward courses Islamic Banking and Finance. A total of 6 informants which consists of three universities were offered the course of Islamic Banking and finance in diploma and degree holder are selected for the purpose of this study. For the analysis, qualitative research was used to analyze the outcome and the sampling technique to ensure that the research objective is archived. The result showed that the respondent information-seeking behaviour in performing task is supported by the electronic sources rather that printed media and human resources due to limited and up-to-date information.