UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIORAL INTENTION OF E-LEARNING SYSTEM RE-USE

Yan Li, Yanqing Duan, Zetian Fu, Weizhe Feng

2010

Abstract

With the rapid development of information and communication technologies, e-learning system has emerged as a new means of education. The learner acceptance of e-learning system has attracted extensive attention, but how the experience of using the existing e-learning system impacts on their behavioural intent to the e-learning system re-use has received limited consideration. As the application of e-learning is gaining its momentum, it is necessary to examine the relationships of e-learners’ experience and their behavioural intention of re-use. It was argued that the better understanding of the factors affecting the e-learner’s behavioural intention in the future could help e-learning system researchers and providers to develop more effective and acceptable e-learning systems. Based on the technology acceptance model, information system success model and self-efficacy theory, a theoretical framework was developed to investigate the learner’s behavioural intention to e-learning system re- use. A total of 280 university students were surveyed to test the proposed structural model. The results demonstrated that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, service quality, course quality and self-efficacy had direct effects on users’ intention to re-use. Furthermore, self-efficacy affected perceived ease of use which positively influenced perceived usefulness.

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Li Y., Duan Y., Fu Z. and Feng W. (2010). UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIORAL INTENTION OF E-LEARNING SYSTEM RE-USE . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-30-0, pages 218-223. DOI: 10.5220/0003101302180223


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@conference{kmis10,
author={Yan Li and Yanqing Duan and Zetian Fu and Weizhe Feng},
title={UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIORAL INTENTION OF E-LEARNING SYSTEM RE-USE },
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={218-223},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003101302180223},
isbn={978-989-8425-30-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2010)
TI - UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIORAL INTENTION OF E-LEARNING SYSTEM RE-USE
SN - 978-989-8425-30-0
AU - Li Y.
AU - Duan Y.
AU - Fu Z.
AU - Feng W.
PY - 2010
SP - 218
EP - 223
DO - 10.5220/0003101302180223