Evaluating Students’ Need in Using Computer Aided Software in Landscape Design Course

Landscape design is one of a course offered in Landscape Programme in higher level education institutions in Malaysia. The objective of this paper is to study and to evaluate students’ need in using computer aided software in landscape design course in Community College in Malaysia. As a well-known fact, landscape design is a course about drawings and most of the teaching techniques involve hand drawing. Hand drawing class seems to be a problem when it comes to the advanced use of technologies nowadays. The emergence of computer aided software in landscape design course appears to provide convenience to students in this course. Furthermore, there are long-term impacts regarding the literacy of using the software after the students finished their college. The survey involves interviews and questionnaires. Questions for interviews were closed questions whereas a set of questionnaire was distributed to 50 respondents involving three (3) Community College in Malaysia which offered Landscape Programme. Findings of the study showed that most of the students think that using computer aided software is convenience and they are significantly need to use the software in landscape design course.