Abstract:
The students ought to be capable together with their teachers to work in a sheltered,
effective and pleasant way and in addition to well-disposed use of computing sources
in IT classrooms. The engineering students have to spend their most of the time
occupying the computer networked classrooms. Although, the IT-rich classrooms
provide technological supports but it also points out that human factors like
psychosocial factors are responsible for a student’s fulfillment with the conditions and
overall environment. This study investigated the relationships between psychosocial
characteristics such as Student Cohesion, Involvement, Autonomy, Task Orientation,
Cooperation and satisfaction of the engineering students in digital learning
environment who are studying in different private universities in Bangladesh. Another
depiction was to find those factors who make the most significant association with
satisfaction of engineering students. The target group is a total of 1000 students from
undergraduate level, Department of Software Engineering, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering from Daffodil
International University (DIU), American International University of Bangladesh
(AIUB) and BRAC University. What is happening in the class? (WIHIC)
questionnaire was adopted for surveying the students about the psychosocial factors
and their satisfaction level in IT-rich classrooms. The factors then analyzed and
regressed against satisfaction. The findings revealed that psychosocial factors have
weak but significant and positive association with student satisfaction. It also proves
that, the changes in psychosocial factors have a huge effect on positive and also
negative satisfaction significance level. The learning environment of engineering
universities impacts the students’ satisfaction according to psychosocial aspects which
includes course curriculum, teaching methods, relationship with other students, selfefficiency and tasks clarification. Finally, the theoretical and experimental outcomes
of this study make a clear vision that in Bangladesh, the leading private universities
offering undergraduate engineering studies providing their students classrooms with
proper digital and empirical support which results in positive students’ satisfaction
although there are lot more areas has left to be explored to make the IT-rich
classrooms environment more sufficient.
