Factors affecting acceptance and use of moodle: An empirical study based on TAM

Informatica (Ljubljana)

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-100

  Šumak, Boštjan ^a   Heričko, Marjan ^a   Pušnik, Maja ^a   Polančič, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Acceptance; E learning; Moodle; TAM

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE; ACTIVE LEARNERS; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MOODLE; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; ONLINE LEARNING; OPEN SOURCES; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; RESEARCH MODELS; SEM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING; TAM; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; WEB TECHNOLOGIES;

DATA REDUCTION; E-LEARNING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INNOVATION; OPEN SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79953329583     PISSN: 03505596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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