An investigation on students' acceptance of writing web logs: A test of technology acceptance model

2009 International Conference on Education Technology and Computer, ICETC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 181-185

  Mah, Boon Yih ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Behavioural Intention (BI); Blogging; Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU); Perceived Usefulness (PU); Technology Acceptance Model (TAM); User acceptance; Web log

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL INTENTION (BI); BLOGGING; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE (PEOU); PERCEIVED USEFULNESS (PU); TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL (TAM); USER ACCEPTANCE; WEB LOG;

EDUCATION COMPUTING; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 70449580873     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICETC.2009.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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