Exploring barriers affecting eLearning usage intentions: an NLP-based multi-method approach

Ray, Arghya; Bala, Pradip Kumar; Dwivedi, Yogesh K.

doi:10.1080/0144929x.2020.1849403

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“…The findings of hypothesis one (H1) endorse that usage barriers negatively influence the farmers' attention to using regenerative farming technologies. These findings are aligned with the previous findings that illuminated the adverse influence of usage barriers on individuals' intention to use novel technologies (Jansukpum and Kettem, 2015 ; Moorthy et al, 2017 ; Kim and Lee, 2020 ; Ray et al, 2020 ; Lissitsa and Kol, 2021 ; Dimitrova et al, 2022 ). Along the same lines, the results of H2 endorse that value barriers negatively influence the farmers' intention to use regenerative farming technologies.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Literature is replete with the research that has affirmed the adverse influence of usage barriers on individuals' intention to use novel technologies such as e-commerce (Moorthy et al, 2017 ), e-learning (Ray et al, 2020 ), mobile health applications (Kim and Lee, 2020 ), e-tourism (Jansukpum and Kettem, 2015 ), m-shopping (Lissitsa and Kol, 2021 ), and e-banking (Kaur et al, 2020 ). Thus, the usage barriers are associated with the resistance of the individuals toward new technologies.…”

Section: Literature Review and Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In line with the IRT, this study argues that the new technologies are sustainable but can entirely affect the farmers' existing practices. Previous literature also identified this facet of the usage barriers whereby the individuals reported a negative relationship of usage barriers owing to contradiction and required changes to the existing practices (Ray et al, 2020 ; Lissitsa and Kol, 2021 ). Furthermore, the involvement of the complexities in the adoption of regenerative farming can also instigate resistance among the farmers.…”

Section: Literature Review and Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring Influence of Communication Campaigns in Promoting Regenerative Farming Through Diminishing Farmers' Resistance to Innovation: An Innovation Resistance Theory Perspective From Global South

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Climate change and farming malpractices (e.g., harmful pesticides use) are harmful to the globe's productive soil and biodiversity, thereby posing a hazard to the survival of future generations. Innovative technologies provide continuous smart conservation solutions, such as regenerative farming, to confront the ongoing climate crisis and maintain biodiversity. Albeit, regenerative farming has the potential to conserve climate change by upgrading the soil's organic materials and reinstating biodiversity leading to carbon attenuation. However, a critical problem remains concerning adapting conservation farming practices that can assist low-income farmers. In this scenario, theoretical-driven communication campaigns are critical for addressing individuals' resistance to innovation. Thereby, this research uncovers the moderating influence of the numerous communication tools in determining the adoption of regenerative farming through diminishing farmers' resistance to innovation. The study employed a cross-sectional design vis-à-vis a survey method. A sample of 863 farmers participated by responding to the self-administrated questionnaire. In line with prior theories, the study's results identified that communication campaigns such as public service advertisements and informative scientific documentaries could reduce the resistance to innovation that increases the attitude toward the adoption of regenerative farming with varied intensity. Besides, informational support also remained a significant contributor in determining the intention to adopt regenerative farming. This specifies that implanting habits of conservation farming requires the initiation of communication campaigns using different media content. These results may be advantageous for policymakers to influence farmers' intentions to adopt regenerative farming.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Literature Review and Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Review and Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Shearer and Park (2019) envisage that an ideal online experience has pedagogical approaches with a mixture of personalized, adaptive, and transformative learning experiences, as well as instructional design strategies that are interactive and engaging. From a realistic perspective, several factors that affect adopting e-learning content and retention attitudes were investigated by Ray et al (2022). The factors include structure rigidity, complexity level, teacher interactions, interface issues, and understanding difficulties.…”

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Transactional distance theory in distance learning: Past, current, and future research trends

Achuthan,

Kolil,

Muthupalani

et al. 2024

CONT ED TECHNOLOGY

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The accelerated adoption of distance learning in post-pandemic times has resulted in increasing research publications and review studies in a short time. This necessitates the exploration of a large corpus of academic publications for effective distance learning and learning strategies. As distance learning stakeholders have assimilated the transactional approach to understanding distance learning, transactional distance theory (TDT) is relevant to understand ways to reduce the distance between learners and educators for maximum effectiveness of distance learning. Our study applies TDT to review distance learning from a supply perspective and as a tool to ensure the improved quality of distance learning. This paper has two key contributions: we have presented evidence synthesis and conducted a foresight exercise. Following preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses guidelines, 275 documents published between 1994 and 2022 were identified for review. Our analysis revealed patterns, relationships, and trends in the application of TDT in various distance learning contexts. Most TDT research is conducted in social sciences (83.7%), with computer science accounting for 42.6% of the studies. The course materials’ structure and design have also received considerable attention, with around 40.0% of the research focused on this area. For distance learning, studies revolve around factors such as student engagement, satisfaction, and TDT, which examine the distance between learners and instructors in various learning environments. Through systematic review and meta-analysis, we identify the three thematic areas in TDT research on distance learning. We have chartered themes on the effect of alternate design distance learning platforms on learner success, pushing the development boundaries in distance learning success through TDT, and the practical processes for designing successful distance learning courses via TDT-based pedagogical frameworks. In doing so, we streamline research in TDT and distance learning thematically and provide insight into further work. In addition, this study analyzed the relationships between sustainable development goal (SDG) and TDT literature. The co-citation analysis suggested that the strongest links were observed between education and innovation (SDG 4 and SDG 9), followed by education and gender equality (SDG 4 and SDG 5).

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“…Governments tend to know their policies consequences through domestic and foreign media [23]. Sentiment analysis leads to a better and faster understanding of challenges and shortcomings during e-learning and enables providers to solve problems [56]. Physicians can evaluate and improve their treatments by opinion mining.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deterministic solution of algebraic equations in sentiment analysis

Zahedi

Basiri

2023

Multimed Tools Appl

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Text mining methods usually use statistical information to solve text and language-independent procedures. Text mining methods such as polarity detection based on stochastic patterns and rules need many samples to train. On the other hand, deterministic and non-probabilistic methods are easy to solve and faster than other methods but are not efficient in NLP data. In this article, a fast and efficient deterministic method for solving the problems is proposed. In the proposed method firstly we transform text and labels into a set of equations. In the second step, a mathematical solution of ill-posed equations known as Tikhonov regularization was used as a deterministic and non-probabilistic way including additional assumptions, such as smoothness of solution to assign a weight that can reflect the semantic information of each sentimental word. We confirmed the efficiency of the proposed method in the SemEval-2013 competition, ESWC Database and Taboada database as three different cases. We observed improvement of our method over negative polarity due to our proposed mathematical step. Moreover, we demonstrated the effectiveness of our proposed method over the most common and traditional machine learning, stochastic and fuzzy methods.

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Exploring barriers affecting eLearning usage intentions: an NLP-based multi-method approach

Cited by 22 publications

References 77 publications

Exploring Influence of Communication Campaigns in Promoting Regenerative Farming Through Diminishing Farmers' Resistance to Innovation: An Innovation Resistance Theory Perspective From Global South

Exploring Influence of Communication Campaigns in Promoting Regenerative Farming Through Diminishing Farmers' Resistance to Innovation: An Innovation Resistance Theory Perspective From Global South

Transactional distance theory in distance learning: Past, current, and future research trends

Deterministic solution of algebraic equations in sentiment analysis

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