Documents organisation strategies of Open University Malaysia (OUM) postgraduate students
Students doing research would normally download documents from the Internet on to their desktop for later use. However, these documents are not easily found again as the documents are saved indiscriminately in multiple folders on their desktop. This study aims to investigate students’ document or...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1169/1/library-document-1169.pdf http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1169/ |
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| Institution: | Open University Malaysia |
| Summary: | Students doing research would normally download documents from the Internet on to
their desktop for later use. However, these documents are not easily found again as the
documents are saved indiscriminately in multiple folders on their desktop. This study
aims to investigate students’ document organisation strategies on their desktop
primarily. The study includes 128 Open University Malaysia (OUM) postgraduate
students with personal desktop of at least 10 Portable Documents Format (PDFs) files.
Personal Information Management (PIM) is an interesting research field exploring
individual's activities of acquisition, organisation, maintenance, retrieval and sharing
of information (Lush, 2014). Research has shown that PIM activities have an important
influence on the learning processes, particularly university students engaging in many
documents from various sources (Jacques & Fastrez, 2014). Data regarding their
personal desktop documents were collected using survey method. The questionnaire
was administered using Google Form. Two distinct categories of students’ organisation
strategies were identified in this research, which are piling and filing. A discussion of
these results is provided. We will then recommend personal information management
organisation strategies for postgraduate students doing their research project. A proper
information management organisation strategy will lead to the development of efficient
information management skills of the student. |
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