Development of Electronic Journal Online of Vocation and Technical Education

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to develop the academic e-journal in technical and vocational education. The research comprises three parts; part 1 is the development of the academic e-journal in technical and vocational education, part 2 is the quality evaluation of the academic e-Journal in technical and vocational education, and part 3 is the evaluation of users' satisfaction on the academic e-journal in technical and vocational education. The sample group included 386 teachers in vocational institutes under the Office of Vocational Education Commission through simple random sampling technique. The research tools for data collection included open journal system, evaluation forms to validate the quality of the e-journal and the satisfaction evaluation for the editors, users, and readers on the e-journal. The research statistics employed in this study included percentage, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation. The results showed that, on the real trial, the academic e-journal in technical and vocational education which was uploaded and installed on the web site was practical, friendly user, and could provide enough information. The specialists in the field of web site design reported high satisfaction on the web site development and the editorial group reported the average high satisfaction at 4.26.the users rated their satisfaction at the average of 3.97 which can be concluded that the academic e-journal in technical and vocational education reaches high quality and can be used in the real situation with high satisfaction.