Browsing by Author "Gunawardhana, D. N. T"

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Classification of failure factors in information systems
(2015) Perera, H. S. C; Gunawardhana, D. N. T
Failure rate of Information Systems have rapidly increased in different aspects due to different reasons. Although above situation is not a new sight in the field of Information System, it creates many obstacles to regular activities of any organization. The failure of Information System has become a common state for any organization or industry and not depending on their rank or status. Numerous factors may have affected for Information System Failures and these factors are functioning together or individually to create the failure situation of Information Systems. The objective of this paper is to identify the main failure factors in the Information Systems. An in-depth review of the existing literature has been done to meet the objective of this study. Multidisciplinary studies across different countries, industries and areas have taken into account for identifying the main failure factors of Information Systems. This paper is presented to focus the main failure factors that affected for Information System failures based on literature; environment, quality control, human related, technology related and other connected factors. It can be mainly divided into two parts. They are conceptual factors and background factors or hard factors and soft factors. User participation, participant behavior, user satisfaction, attitudes and expectation level, and the management of organization, infrastructure facilities and pattern of usage play a crucial role in the field of Information Systems that have been identified as background factors with significant impact on Information System failures. Quality failure, project failure, system failure, management failure and software failure identified as conceptual failure factors.
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Framework to identify the affecting factors of electronic service quality of Information Systems of a university: A CONCEPTUAL MODEL
(International Journal of Advanced Studies in Computers, Science and Engineering, 2015-10-01) Gunawardhana, D. N. T; Perera, H. S. C
Electronic media usage is very high in every field with technological innovation. Universities and higher education institutions also use electronic media to see the most effective results on behalf of inputs. Although information and knowledge are separate concepts, they join together to work like a combined socket and the electronic media is the key gear in a given academic environment. Latest technologies have reached the university systems at a higher priority level. From that point, usage of electronic information system has become an essential discussion in the field of education. Many a research have been done in the field of IS and have created an awareness in the direction of service quality of IS in the education environment. Identifying the factors that affect the information system service quality is important to take necessary decisions of IS. This effect was to introduce a framework to identify the affecting factors of IS service quality in a university environment. Introduced framework has principally based on the E-S-Qual model and it has moderated according to literature in this field with findings of the researcher.
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Readiness for" Social Learning Management System"(Social LMS) in Sri Lankan Universities: A case study research based on the students' perspectives.
(International Journal of Advanced Studies in Computers, Science and Engineering, 2018-11-30) Gunawardhana, D. N. T; Perera, H. S. C
Paper discusses the readiness for the Social Learning Management System in Sri Lankan Universities. The main objective of the study, was to identify the factors to be reconsidered in the existing Learning Management Systems. This is a multiple case study research based on two universities in Sri Lanka. Undergraduate students in the University of Colombo and the University of Moratuwa were included in the population and the sample method employed for the data collection in this research was Stratified Purposive Sampling. Learning Management System has become a support system of vital importance in higher education. Social Learning Management System is formed because of the Collaborative Learning methods in an online learning environment. The findings reveal that the willingness of undergraduate students to work in the social network environment for learning and grouping. The Social Learning Management System is a new concept and it has not yet been initiated in universities in Sri Lanka. The students’ responses have indirectly shown the importance of 'Social LMS'. That is, they have been explaining the features of 'Social LMS' in their responses. They have discussed the functionality of ‘Social LMS’ pointing out the lack of collaborative learning environment of existing LMS. The research has discovered that students already possess the mental and knowledge readiness towards the building of Social Learning Management System in Universities of Sri Lanka.
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A study of the usage of information systems in higher education: An exploratory review
(International Journal of Advanced Studies in Computers, Science and Engineering, 2015-04-01) Gunawardhana, D. N. T; Perera, H. S. C
Since Information Systems have become an essential requirement in every field it is important to scrutinize the behavior of information system in higher education sectors. Failure rates of Information Systems are being increasing among all sectors than success rates mostly in developing countries when considering the past research of Information System Development. Importance and application of Information Systems in higher education sectors have been taken considerable weight when making decisions to implement or purchase an Information System to academic institutions. This article aims to provide a brief discussion and clear direction regarding practices of information Systems in higher education sectors. Higher education institutions and universities around the world have been developed Information Systems to manage academic, nonacademic and administrative processes according to literature. An in-depth review of the existing literature has been done to meet the objective of this study. A variety of studies across several different countries and academic industries have been taken into account for identifying the effect of Information System in higher education. Hopefully, this article will add some additional information to the decision makers of Information Systems to make the system more viable and also achieve correct decisions to implement in the Information Systems.