Preservice teachers’ acceptance of learning management software: An application of the UTAUT2 model

• Main Authors: Raman, Arumugam, Don, Yahya
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2013
• Subjects: LB2300 Higher Education
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/15174/1/271.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/15174/; http://doi.org/10.5539/ies.v6n7p157
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

Moodle also known as Learning Management System is freely available to educators. Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) encourages students and instructors to utilize the teaching and learning process. Moodle enables lecturer to create sequences and facilitate activities for their students, auto-marked online quizzes and exams, navigation tools, files download, grading, student progress tracking, online calendar, etc.This paper investigated the relationships between the constructs that may influence preservice teachers’ acceptance of Learning Zone (Moodle) in their learning process and assessing the influence of variation on performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, and the habit to the behavioral intention or intention of usage. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) is verified and found that the regression model revealed 29.5% of the variance in student’s intentions with facilitating conditions and hedonic expectancy are considerable predictors of the behavioral intention. Based on this, recommendations for prospect research in the application of UTAUT2 are discussed.