Jurnal Pengajian Umum Bil. 2 81 Kaedah Pengajaran Berkesan : Antara Keperluan Pelajar dan Realiti Pengajaran Pengajian Jarak Jauh INTAN SAFINAS MOHD ARIFF ALBAKRI 1 , FAZILAH IDRIS 2 , MAZNAH IBRAHIUM 2 , ALAWIAH IBRAHIM 3 ABSTRACT The Distance Learning program of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia has successfully produced graduates from multiple disciplines since it was established in 1994. The program’s establishment has given a great number of individuals, who are working, the opportunity to pursue their studies at a higher level. The Distance Learning program emphasized on two most important components that are teaching and learning. Therefore, this research is conducted to gather the students’ perspectives on the effective teaching techniques used by lecturers teaching the program. 158 respondents who are the Distance Learning program’s students studying in Bangi campus participated in answering the questionnaire. Besides that, this research also focuses on identifying the popular techniques used by the lecturers and its relationship with the effective teaching techniques highlighted by the students. Last but not least, this research also discusses the relationship between ethnicity and the outlined teaching techniques. PENDAHULUAN Pendidikan adalah untuk semua, tidak kira untuk siapa, bila, di mana dan bagaimana dijalankan (Yusuf & Sharifah, 1990). Sehubungan itu, adalah menjadi satu tanggungjawab setiap institusi pendidikan tinggi untuk memberi peluang yang adil dan saksama kepada individu yang ingin melanjutkan pelajaran ke peringkat yang lebih tinggi. Justeru, program seperti program Pengajian Jarak Jauh (PJJ) memainkan peranan yang brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by UKM Journal Article Repository