Factors Determining of Effects of Teachers' Web-Based Teaching Platform Usage-Using UTAUT to Explore

Abstract

Whether web-based teaching is accepted by the public is worth investigating. Three critical factors to be considered for answering the above question are instructors, web-based teaching platforms, and students. Some instructors have recognized that there is a huge gap between teaching methods for web-based teaching and those for conventional teaching. Furthermore, because many instructors are forced into web-based teaching, they are not very willing to use the web-based teaching platform provided by their school. In this study, the researchers integrated a web-based teaching platform used by instructors of a university into the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) for factor analysis and discussion. The study result demonstrated that factors influencing behavior intention and actual use behavior, e.g., performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions, have their potential impacts. The researchers have also found in the analysis of moderator variables that users' past use experience and the domain they teach at school have stronger impacts. The researchers consider that it is important to enhance the quality as well as the quantity of education and training and to enable the users to understand benefits from the system. By doing so, users' expectation on system performance would be enhanced and thereby it will improve their attitude for actual application and reducing negative impacts from subjective norms.