The Study of Learners’ Intention to Use an Online Learning Community
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Liu, I-Fan
Abstract
With the booming of Internet and progress of information technology, more and more learners join online learning community as another learning channel to be an extension of traditional class. In this research, we provide an online learning community for learners to study English on it. Meanwhile, to promote excellent English books, our community holds regular related activity like reading contest for online members. Hence, the purpose of this study is to use the extended TAM model as our research framework, and would like to understand whether learners are willing to reuse an online learning community.
The study of this thesis, 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.
Subjects
intention to use an online learning community
Technology Acceptance Model
motivation theory
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