Improving School Heads’ Digital Skills through e-Books on Canvas as a Learning Management System

Digital skills have been in demand in the workplace. However, school heads have demonstrated inadequacies in using digital skills in education. The study employed pre-tests and post-tests using a validated research instrument to describe the school heads’ digital skills before and after the intervention. The results showed a significant improvement from the intermediate to the advanced level after using e-books on Canvas as the learning management system for upskilling their skills. Statistical analysis of the data also showed that the use of e-books resulted in an improvement in the digital skills of school heads. The paired samples t-test resulted in a calculated t-statistic of 3.781 with a corresponding p-value of 0.003, which falls below the conventional alpha level of 0.05, leading to the rejection of the null hypothesis that there is no difference in the mean score. Based on these findings, the study concludes that using e-books contributed to an increase in the level of digital skills of secondary school heads. In addition, this indicates that using e-books via Canvas as a learning management system has been proven effective because there was an increase in the mean scores, resulting in a significant improvement in the digital skills of school heads. Hence, this study calls for school heads to constantly strengthen the use of e-books and upgrade their digital skills at work using the e-books developed in this study.

https://doi.org/10.64233/GAZJ8552