Looking under the Bonnet: Factors Affecting Student Adoption of E-Learning Systems in Jordan

The primary questions addressed in this paper are the following: what are the factors that affect students’ adoption of an e-learning system and what are the relationships among these factors? This paper investigates and identifies some of the major factors affecting students’ adoption of an e-l...

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Autores principales:	Muneer Mahmood Abbad, David Morris, Carmel de Nahlik
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2009
Materias:	E-learning technology acceptance model Structural Equation Modelling system adoption Middle East Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:363d5f9eebb145e9934227de5ed27c9d2021-12-02T16:59:50ZLooking under the Bonnet: Factors Affecting Student Adoption of E-Learning Systems in Jordan10.19173/irrodl.v10i2.5961492-3831https://doaj.org/article/363d5f9eebb145e9934227de5ed27c9d2009-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/596https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831The primary questions addressed in this paper are the following: what are the factors that affect students’ adoption of an e-learning system and what are the relationships among these factors? This paper investigates and identifies some of the major factors affecting students’ adoption of an e-learning system in a university in Jordan. E-learning adoption is approached from the information systems acceptance point of view. This suggests that a prior condition for learning effectively using e-learning systems is that students must actually use them. Thus, a greater knowledge of the factors that affect IT adoption and their interrelationships is a pre-cursor to a better understanding of student acceptance of e-learning systems. In turn, this will help and guide those who develop, implement, and deliver e-learning systems. In this study, an extended version of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was developed to investigate the underlying factors that influence students’ decisions to use an e-learning system. The TAM was populated using data gathered from a survey of 486 undergraduate students using the Moodle based e-learning system at the Arab Open University. The model was estimated using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). A path model was developed to analyze the relationships between the factors to explain students’ adoption of the e-learning system. Whilst findings support existing literature about prior experience affecting perceptions, they also point to surprising group effects, which may merit future exploration.Muneer Mahmood AbbadDavid MorrisCarmel de NahlikAthabasca University PressarticleE-learningtechnology acceptance modelStructural Equation Modellingsystem adoptionMiddle EastSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 10, Iss 2 (2009)
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spellingShingle	E-learning technology acceptance model Structural Equation Modelling system adoption Middle East Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Muneer Mahmood Abbad David Morris Carmel de Nahlik Looking under the Bonnet: Factors Affecting Student Adoption of E-Learning Systems in Jordan
description	The primary questions addressed in this paper are the following: what are the factors that affect students’ adoption of an e-learning system and what are the relationships among these factors? This paper investigates and identifies some of the major factors affecting students’ adoption of an e-learning system in a university in Jordan. E-learning adoption is approached from the information systems acceptance point of view. This suggests that a prior condition for learning effectively using e-learning systems is that students must actually use them. Thus, a greater knowledge of the factors that affect IT adoption and their interrelationships is a pre-cursor to a better understanding of student acceptance of e-learning systems. In turn, this will help and guide those who develop, implement, and deliver e-learning systems. In this study, an extended version of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was developed to investigate the underlying factors that influence students’ decisions to use an e-learning system. The TAM was populated using data gathered from a survey of 486 undergraduate students using the Moodle based e-learning system at the Arab Open University. The model was estimated using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). A path model was developed to analyze the relationships between the factors to explain students’ adoption of the e-learning system. Whilst findings support existing literature about prior experience affecting perceptions, they also point to surprising group effects, which may merit future exploration.
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title	Looking under the Bonnet: Factors Affecting Student Adoption of E-Learning Systems in Jordan
title_short	Looking under the Bonnet: Factors Affecting Student Adoption of E-Learning Systems in Jordan
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Looking under the Bonnet: Factors Affecting Student Adoption of E-Learning Systems in Jordan

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