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An Investigation of the Factors That Influence Students’ Intention to Adopt E-Learning

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Advances in Visual Informatics (IVIC 2013)

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Universities and other educational institutions around the world are increasingly using e-learning technology to more efficiently and effectively deliver the education to their students. Successful implementation of e-learning system is determined by the acceptance of such system by students. Therefore this study was undertaken to explore the factors that influence the intention of students to adopt e-learning at the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka (SEUSL) and the investigation was carried out by using UTAUT model. It was found that, performance expectancy, effect expectancy and facilitation conditions are the important factors, that are influencing students’ intention to adopt e-learning, and the results are contributory for the development of a strategy for implementing e-learning system at this university. It was also found that, both, the university and students are capable of adopting e-learning system.

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  1. Faculty of Management and Commerce, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka (SEUSL), University Park, Oluvil, 32360, Sri Lanka

    Mohamed Hussain Thowfeek

  2. Institute of Visual Informatics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), 43600 UKM, Bangi, Malaysia

    Azizah Jaafar

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  1. Institute of Visual Informatics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Halimah Badioze Zaman

  2. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB3 0FD, Cambridge, UK

    Peter Robinson

  3. School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Culture Lab, King’s Walk, NE1 7RU, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

    Patrick Olivier

  4. Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, No 300, Jhongda Rd, Jhongli, Taiwan

    Timothy K. Shih

  5. Computing and Information Systems, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2EE, London, United Kingdom

    Sergio Velastin

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Thowfeek, M.H., Jaafar, A. (2013). An Investigation of the Factors That Influence Students’ Intention to Adopt E-Learning. In: Zaman, H.B., Robinson, P., Olivier, P., Shih, T.K., Velastin, S. (eds) Advances in Visual Informatics. IVIC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8237. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02958-0_67

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