The acceptance of Moodle technology by business administration students

Computers and Education

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1085-1093

  Escobar Rodriguez, Tomas ^a   Monge Lozano, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distance education and telelearning; E Learning; Moodle; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TELE-LEARNING; LEARNING SKILLS; MOODLE; MOODLE PLATFORM; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGIES; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; THEORY AND PRACTICE; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

E-LEARNING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84855389053     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.11.012     Document Type: Article

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