Impact of media richness and flow on e-learning technology acceptance

Computers and Education

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 599-607

  Liu, Su Houn ^a   Liao, Hsiu Li ^a   Pratt, Jean A ^b  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance education and telelearning; Lifelong learning; Multimedia hypermedia systems; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SYSTEMS; DISTANCE EDUCATION; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER USERS; CONCENTRATION LEVELS; DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TELELEARNING; E-LEARNERS; E-LEARNING SYSTEMS; E-LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; FLOW THEORIES; INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS; LIFELONG LEARNING; MEDIA RICHNESS; MEDIA RICHNESS THEORIES; MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; STREAMED VIDEOS; STREAMING MEDIAS; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGIES; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODELS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS; USERS' ACCEPTANCES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 59049096482     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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