TY - JOUR
T1 - Extending the TAM model to explore the factors that affect Intention to Use an Online Learning Community
AU - Liu, I. Fan
AU - Chen, Meng Chang
AU - Sun, Yeali S.
AU - Wible, David
AU - Kuo, Chin Hwa
N1 - Funding Information:
The IWiLL project is partially sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the National Science Council of Taiwan under Grant NSC 96-2524-S-008-003. The authors would like to thank all the people who participated in and contributed to this study, and anonymous reviewers′ constructive comments on earlier version of this manuscript.
PY - 2010/2/1
Y1 - 2010/2/1
N2 - An online learning community enables learners to access up-to-date information via the Internet anytime-anywhere because of the ubiquity of the World Wide Web (WWW). Students can also interact with one another during the learning process. Hence, researchers want to determine whether such interaction produces learning synergy in an online learning community. In this paper, we take the Technology Acceptance Model as a foundation and extend the external variables as well as the Perceived Variables as our model and propose a number of hypotheses. A total of 436 Taiwanese senior high school students participated in this research, and the online learning community focused on learning English. The research results show that all the hypotheses are supported, which indicates that the extended variables can effectively predict whether users will adopt an online learning community. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings for the future development of online English learning communities.
AB - An online learning community enables learners to access up-to-date information via the Internet anytime-anywhere because of the ubiquity of the World Wide Web (WWW). Students can also interact with one another during the learning process. Hence, researchers want to determine whether such interaction produces learning synergy in an online learning community. In this paper, we take the Technology Acceptance Model as a foundation and extend the external variables as well as the Perceived Variables as our model and propose a number of hypotheses. A total of 436 Taiwanese senior high school students participated in this research, and the online learning community focused on learning English. The research results show that all the hypotheses are supported, which indicates that the extended variables can effectively predict whether users will adopt an online learning community. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings for the future development of online English learning communities.
KW - Evaluation methodologies
KW - Evaluation of CAL systems
KW - Interactive learning environments
KW - Learning communities
KW - Media in education
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.09.009
DO - 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.09.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:71849106484
SN - 0360-1315
VL - 54
SP - 600
EP - 610
JO - Computers and Education
JF - Computers and Education
IS - 2
ER -