Investigating Greek employees' intention to use web-based training

Computers and Education

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 877-889

  Chatzoglou, Prodromos D ^a   Sarigiannidis, Lazaros ^a   Vraimaki, Eftichia ^a   Diamantidis, Anastasios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adult learning; Country specific developments; Interactive learning environments

Indexed keywords

ADULT LEARNING; CAUSAL RELATIONS; COMPUTER ANXIETY; COUNTRY-SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENTS; EMPLOYEE TRAINING; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; IT PERFORMANCE; LEARNING GOALS; MANAGEMENT SUPPORT; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; REMOTE LOCATION; RESEARCH MODELS; SELF EFFICACY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; WEB BASED TRAINING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PERSONNEL;

PERSONNEL TRAINING;

EID: 67650224045     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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