Factors Influencing Students’ Likelihood to Purchase Electronic Textbooks

Stone, Robert W.; Baker-Eveleth, Lori

doi:10.28945/1792

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“…The perceived usefulness, convenience, compatibility, and perceived enjoyment in the combined model are suggested to be influential factors contributing to dedicated e-textbook application acceptance. More recently, Stone and Baker-Eveleth (2013b) examined the likelihood of students purchasing an electronic textbook with an extended TAM. The results indicated that an e-textbook's usefulness, ease of use, and students' arousal E-textbook adoption…”

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Explaining undergraduates’ behavior intention of e-textbook adoption

Hsiao

Tang

2014

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Purpose – The current study aims to investigate college students' behavioral intentions to adopt e-textbooks for their studies according to well-known theoretical intention-based models. Design/methodology/approach – This paper empirically assesses five theoretical models of technology acceptance, including the theory of planned behavior (TPB), the technology acceptance model (TAM), the decomposed TPB model (DTPB), the combined model of TAM and TPB (C-TAM-TPB), and the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). The survey methodology and structural equation modeling (SEM) were employed to examine and compare these five models. Moreover, explanatory power, goodness-of-fit indices, and model parsimony were taken into consideration in the model comparisons. Findings – Both TPB and TAM provided less effective but adequate predictive behavioral power. However, TPB appeared to be more parsimonious than TAM and the other models. By focusing on specific beliefs of attitude, social and control influences, DTPB shares many of the same advantages as TPB and TAM, but is less parsimonious. Similarly, C-TAM-TPB, an augmented version of TAM that incorporates social influences and behavioral control, is superior to TPB and TAM in terms of its explanatory power of behavioral intention to use e-textbooks. Overall, however, the results indicated that UTAUT appeared to be the best model in terms of the metrics of parsimonious fit and explanatory power. Originality/value – Theoretical comparison of different models is important. This is believed to be the first study to present model comparisons by investigating undergraduates' intention to adopt e-textbooks as tools for their on-campus learning in Taiwan.

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Explaining undergraduates’ behavior intention of e-textbook adoption

Hsiao

Tang

2014

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“…On the other hand, ease to use is one of the important factors that contributed to the motivation to purchase the e-textbook (Stone and Baker, 2013). The results in the Robert et.al (2021) study also indicated that ease of use has a significant impact on student likelihood to purchase e-textbook.…”

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“…Technology advancement affects many aspects of an individual's life (Stone and Baker, 2013) and yet, it is vital to access all information especially among university students. Due to this, the electronic books which are also known as e-text may provide students, professors, universities, and colleges with additional tools to support process learning in the classroom.…”

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Discovering the Motivational Factors of Adopting E-Textbook in Students’ Learning at University

Omar¹,

Bakar²,

Ibrahim³

et al. 2022

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With the development of the internet and information technologies, the usage of electronic textbooks that are also known as e-books, e-text books or digital books have become increasingly popular in the educational setting. Students are therefore very interested in these new technologies for their learning at universities. Besides, there is a tremendous growth of e-textbook towards study habits of undergraduate students as alternatives to printed textbooks. Since the majority of the academic institutions had experienced online learning during the pandemic of covid-19, thus the demand towards online books has also increased drastically. The main aim of this study is to identify the motivational factors that affect the students' adoption towards e-textbook in their learning at university. This study discusses the three elements which include perceived usefulness, perceived value and ease of use which could drive the students to use e-textbook. Next, the future research will further conduct an analysis in detail based on those factors to explore the potential impact towards adoption behaviour in using e-textbook among students.

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“…The rapid development of technology cannot be denied bringing innovation that can play an essential role in education. In this case, technological advances touch various aspects of individual lives (W. Stone & Baker-Eveleth, 2013). Improving understanding and reusing these resources can be done by adopting digital technology to analyze and manage learning resources.…”

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Developing Digital Entrepreneurship Learning Model: 4-D Competencies-Based for Millennial Generation in Higher Education

Erdisna

Ridwan

Syahputra

2022

Utamax

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This present R&D study aims to develop a digital model of millennial entrepreneurship in universities attached to the Information System Design Analysis course with 4C competencies (Communication, Collaboration, Critical thinking, and Creativity). The problem is that students only make software to fulfill course assignments without thinking about the usefulness of the software they produce as a means of digital entrepreneurship. The research method used was a 4-D development model consisting of 4 stages: Definition, Design, Development, and Dissemination. The literacy model testing carried out showed that the average score was 0.840, which stated that the model was distributed as valid and doable to use. The average results of the practicality assessment of the operation of the Digital entrepreneurship literacy model grounded on the perception of the experimental class scholars were 87 in the practical order. The results show that the digital entrepreneurship model encourages students to open businesses using information technology. The development of this entrepreneurship digital learning model can train students to have an entrepreneurial spirit. In addition, it can improve students' skills in 21st-century literacy.

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Factors Influencing Students’ Likelihood to Purchase Electronic Textbooks

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

Explaining undergraduates’ behavior intention of e-textbook adoption

Explaining undergraduates’ behavior intention of e-textbook adoption

Discovering the Motivational Factors of Adopting E-Textbook in Students’ Learning at University

Developing Digital Entrepreneurship Learning Model: 4-D Competencies-Based for Millennial Generation in Higher Education

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