Assessing the acceptance of a blended learning university course

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 224-235

  Tselios, Nikolaos ^a   Daskalakis, Stelios ^a   Papadopoulou, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blended learning; Ease of use; Elearning; Partial least squares; Perceptions; Technology acceptance model; Technology adoption; Usefulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051506752     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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