A Study of Students' Experiences toward the University Self-developed Social Learning Management System: myCourseVille The Case of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Chulalongkorn University has developed its own Learning Management System (LMS) named myCourseVille which will be used to enhance students learning experience. myCourseVille contains many similar features that are comparable to other existing LMS, such as Blackboard (Bb). This paper, we study the learning experiences of university students and explored the students' learning activities, such as learning style, learning equipment and how they prepared for examinations. We also study their learning experience toward myCourseVille. The experiment consisted of the collection of 242 questionnaires from Chulalongkorn University students from the social science, health science and general science faculty, along with the conducting of focus groups including 33 university students. Results showed that students were basically satisfied with the affordances that myCourseVille provided, as the fundamental functions of an LMS could be easily implement in login with Facebook accounts, and course arrangement resembled a rectangular box which displayed the image icon instead of the course, along with displaying assignments as a sort task, showing the date of posting and the stipulated deadline clearly. A comparison regarding the satisfaction with the functions of the LMS between users who have used the LMS and the users who have not conclusively showed that myCourseVille was most suitable for learning.