Factors influencing students’ adoption of e-learning: a structural equation modeling approach

Abstract

Purpose This research aims to examine the factors that may hinder or enable the adoption of e-learning systems by university students. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual framework was developed through extending the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (performance expectancy, effort expectancy, hedonic motivation, habit, social influence, price value and facilitating conditions) by incorporating two additional factors, namely, trust and self-efficacy. Data were collected from students at two universities in England using a cross-sectional questionnaire survey between January and March 2015. Findings The results showed that behavioral intention (BI) was significantly influenced by performance expectancy, social influence, habit, hedonic motivation, self-efficacy, effort expectancy and trust, in their order of influencing the strength and explained 70.6 per cent of the variance in behavioral intention. Contrary to expectations, facilitating conditions and price value did not have an influence on behavioral intention. Originality/value The aforementioned factors are considered critical in explaining technology adoption but, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, there has been no study in which all these factors were modeled together. Therefore, this study will contribute to the literature related to social networking adoption by integrating all these variables and the first to be tested in the UK universities.

What’s Wrong with SISDALSKRIPSI? An Evaluation of the Thesis Control System at UNNES

“…The findings of this study are in line with previous studies [2,3,5,11]. However, there are researchers who do not find any influence on facilitating conditions for use behavior [10,14].…”

“…The results of this study confirm the results of previous studies [2-5, 8, 17, 18]. Nevertheless, there are some researchers who found no effect of effort expectancy on behavioral intention [11,13,14].…”

“…Faculty of Economics UNNES take a more systematic step by preparing standard operating procedure (SOP) completion of thesis and implements thesis control system (SISDALSKRIPSI) based on information system. The academic data of FE UNNES shows over the last 2 years, there are about 10% of students are still trying to complete their thesis in semester 14. The fact that less encouraging.…”

The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Entrepreneurial Orientation via the Mediating Role of Organizational Learning Capability

“…In addition, researchers called for more research on the enabling factors of applying electronic services (e.g. Masa'deh, et al, 2008Masa'deh, et al, , 2013aMasa'deh, et al, , 2013bAl-Dmour et al, 2015;Almajali & Maqableh, 2015;Kateb et al, 2015;Maqableh et al, 2015;Masa'deh, 2016;Tarhini et al, 2015;2016, 2017a, 2017bAlmajali & Al-Dmour, 2016;Alenezi et al, 2017;Aldmour et al, 2017;Khwaldeh et al, 2017;Mikkawi & Al-Lozi, 2017;Yassien & Mufleh, 2017;Tarhini et al, 2018;Al-Dmour et al, 2019), hence, future studies could examine a mediating effect of variables other than organizational learning capability such as employees' empowerment and organizational culture.…”

The Effect of Transformational Leadership on Entrepreneurial Orientation: The Mediating Role of Organizational Learning Capability

“…Also, researchers called for more research on the enabling factors of applying electronic services (e.g. Masa'deh, et al, 2008Masa'deh, et al, , 2013aMasa'deh, et al, , 2013bAl-Dmour et al, 2015;Almajali & Maqableh, 2015;Kateb et al, 2015;Maqableh et al, 2015;Masa'deh, 2016;Tarhini et al, 2015;2016, 2017a, 2017bAlmajali & Al-Dmour, 2016;Alenezi et al, 2017;Aldmour et al, 2017;Khwaldeh et al, 2017;Mikkawi & Al-Lozi, 2017;Yassien & Mufleh, 2017;Al-Dmour et al, 2019), hence, future studies could examine a mediating effect of variables other than organizational learning capability such as employees' empowerment and organizational culture.…”