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The acceptance and use of a virtual learning environment in China

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2008, Computers & Education

https://doi.org/10.1016/J.COMPEDU.2006.09.001
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The success of a virtual learning environment (VLE) depends to a considerable extent on student acceptance and use of such an e-learning system. After critically assessing models of technology adoption, including the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), TAM2, and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Usage of Technology (UTAUT), we build a conceptual model to explain the differences between individual students in the level of acceptance and use of a VLE. This model extends TAM2 and includes subjective norm, personal innovativeness in the domain of information technology, and computer anxiety. Data were collected from 45 Chinese participants in an Executive MBA program. After performing satisfactory reliability and validity checks, the structural model was tested with the use of PLS. Results indicate that perceived usefulness has a direct effect on VLE use. Perceived ease of use and subjective norm have only indirect effects via perceived usefulness. Both personal innovativeness and computer anxiety have direct effects on perceived ease of use only. Implications are that program managers in education should not only concern themselves with basic system design but also explicitly address individual differences between VLE users.

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    Purpose: The evaluation aspects, in relation to e-learning initiatives, are gaining substantial attention nowadays. As technology continuously influences the way learning is conducted, technical as well as organizational requirements need to be thoroughly investigated across a variety of stakeholders. Methodology: In this paper, an outline of those aspects occurred from an accompanying literature review on methods and research frameworks utilized toward the evaluation of e-learning initiatives is presented. The review identified a series of studies that take advantage of well-established theories in the area of users' acceptance of technology combined with additional, e-learning context-specific, factors. Findings: Results of the review are presented to the reader according to the adopted research model, in order to ease the process of locating and retrieving e-learning evaluation paradigms per theoretical model. Value: Research findings are discussed and future implications for e-learning evaluation initiatives as well as potential stakeholders are highlighted.

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    Modeling the Determinants Affecting Consumers’ Acceptance and Use of Information and Communications Technology
    Saleh Alwahaishi

    International Journal of E-Adoption, 2013

    Understanding individual acceptance and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is one of the most mature streams of information systems research. In Information Technology and Information System research, numerous theories are used to understand users’ adoption of new technologies. Various models were developed including the Innovation Diffusion Theory, Theory of Reasoned Action, Theory of Planned Behavior, Technology Acceptance Model, and recently, the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology. Each of these models has sought to identify the factors which influence consumers’ intention or actual use of information technology. This research composes a new hybrid theoretical framework to identify the factors affecting the acceptance and use of Mobile Internet -as an ICT application- in a consumer context. The proposed model incorporates eight constructs: Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Facilitating Conditions, Social Influences, Perceived Value, Per...

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    Motivations for the Use of IoT Solutions by Company Managers in the Digital Age: A Romanian Case
    Laurentiu Stoenica

    Applied Sciences

    The purpose of our study is to research and identify intrinsic and extrinsic motivations but also their impact on the behavioral intentions of using Internet of Things (IoT) solutions among company managers in Romania in the future. The research method used in the quantitative study was the sample survey, using the online questionnaire as a data collection tool. The questionnaire included a formalized set of 54 questions, being specially designed to generate a new structural model starting from the Unified Theory for Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) elements. A total of 416 respondents provided complete and useful answers for this research. The results of the study showed that the endogenous factor intrinsically motivated significantly and strongly affected the intention of managers to use IoT solutions in professional activity compared to the variable of extrinsic motivation whose action remains insignificant. At the same time, the effect of the intrinsic motivation variabl...

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    Sustainable Applications of Smart-Government Services: A Model to Understand Smart-Government Adoption
    omar almomani

    Sustainability

    Despite the fact that several studies have been conducted to study the adoption of smart-government services, little consideration has been paid to exploring the main factors that influence the adoption of smart-government services at the three main stages of smart-government services (the static, interaction, and transaction stages). Based on the results of this study, each of these three stages has different requirements in terms of system compatibility, security, information quality, awareness, perceived functional benefit, self-efficacy, perceived image, perceived uncertainty, availability of resources, and perceived trust. In addition, the results demonstrate that the requirements and perceptions of users towards the adoption and use of smart-government services in the three stages significantly differ. This study makes a unique contribution to the existing research by examining the perceptions and needs of consumers, in terms of adoption throughout the three stages.

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