Simple and Multiple Relationships among Perceived Ease of Use and Perceived Usefulness with E-Learning Acceptance in Universities’ Instructors

Nowadays, fast technological developmenthas increased society's dependence on information technology. One of the technology variants is the online learning, which is one of the challenges of a higher education’s institutions. The purpose of present study was to examine simple and multiple relationships among Perceived ease of use andPerceived usefulness with E-learning acceptance. This study was descriptive-correlation method and conducted at the University of Mohaghegh Ardabili during fall semester of 2014-2015. The data were collected via a questionnaire with a great level of reliability (Cronbach’s alpha=.86) from 146 university instructors. The way of sampling was proportion and randomly. Correlation and Regression were employed to analyze the simple and multiple relationships between variables.The results revealed that the Perceived ease of use and Perceived usefulness predicted E-learning acceptance significantly (R=.214, F(2, 145) =3.415, p<.05). The Perceived usefulness (Beta =.210) for predicting E-learning acceptance was statistically significant, but for the Perceived ease of use (Beta = .013) it was not statistically significant. It has seen that perceived usefulness had positive effect on e-learning acceptance. Hence, it’s influential factor on instructors’ intension and their actual use of the systems adoption. Furthermore, Perceived ease of use didn’t show a significant relation on E-learning acceptance. Thus, further researchescould be directedin this issue

کلیدواژه ها:

Perceived Ease of Use ، Perceived Usefulness ، E-Learning