Formal and Informal Digital Platform for Islamic Financial Education

Digital platform in education is an innovative approach to learning Islamic financial knowledge. Additionally, digital technology intervention in education enhances the accessibility, quality, and effectiveness of learning. Nowadays, most people have gadgets to access digital information for various purposes. As for that, using digital platforms in education could be argued to change how people learn. However, very few findings discuss available digital platforms for Islamic financial education. This study used secondary data to explore the available digital platforms and classified digital platforms that can be accessed for Islamic financial knowledge in Malaysia. Next, this study applied a quantitative method and randomly distributed the questionnaire to 290 Malaysians to identify the preferred digital platform for Islamic financial knowledge. This study then classified digital platforms for Islamic financial knowledge into two categories, formal and informal, and found that Malaysians preferred to use informal as a platform for Islamic financial education.