Students' acceptance of e-learning environments: A comparative study in Sweden and Lithuania

Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 395-406

  Keller, Christina ^a   Hrastinski, Stefan ^a   Carlsson, Sven A ^b  

^a JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

E education; E learning; Technology acceptance; Virtual Learning Environments

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPUTER USE; CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY; E-EDUCATION; E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE STUDENTS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGHER EDUCATION; IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES; INNOVATION DIFFUSION THEORY; LITHUANIA; ORGANISATIONAL FACTORS; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE; TIME SPENT; UNIFIED THEORY OF ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; E-LEARNING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77951141836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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