Factors Affecting University Instructors’ Continuance Intention to Use Learning Management Systems: The Blackboard System Case

Samar Mouakket, Anissa M. Bettayeb

2016

Abstract

Although academic institutions have invested heavily in Learning Management Systems (LMS) to support e-learning platform, few studies have examined the factors affecting their usage, particularly by university instructors. To fill this research gap, this study proposes a framework based on the expectation-confirmation model (ECM) to examine the influence of several critical independent factors related to organizational, technological and individual characteristics on university instructors’ perceived usefulness of Blackboard system as one well-known LMS, which in turn will affect their continuance intention to use this technology. Data was gathered from 158 university instructors at a university in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Structural equation modeling technique was used to validate the causal relationships between the different variables.

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Mouakket S. and Bettayeb A. (2016). Factors Affecting University Instructors’ Continuance Intention to Use Learning Management Systems: The Blackboard System Case . In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-187-8, pages 215-222. DOI: 10.5220/0005748102150222


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@conference{iceis16,
author={Samar Mouakket and Anissa M. Bettayeb},
title={Factors Affecting University Instructors’ Continuance Intention to Use Learning Management Systems: The Blackboard System Case},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2016},
pages={215-222},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005748102150222},
isbn={978-989-758-187-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Factors Affecting University Instructors’ Continuance Intention to Use Learning Management Systems: The Blackboard System Case
SN - 978-989-758-187-8
AU - Mouakket S.
AU - Bettayeb A.
PY - 2016
SP - 215
EP - 222
DO - 10.5220/0005748102150222