• DocumentCode
    1904046
  • Title

    Conceptual inferred TAM by gender in cyberlearning

  • Author

    Wang, Tzong-Song ; Jong, Din ; Liu, Shu-Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of MIS, Tajen Univ., Ping-tung, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    27-30 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    367
  • Lastpage
    371
  • Abstract
    The pace of adoption of cyberlearning is influenced by gender factors that need to be confronted. The technology acceptance model (TAM) designed by Davis in 1989 can be useful to measure the pace of receptivity to use of online resources. Writers try to show that Taiwanese women in highly technical programs are more resistant to computing and Web online distance courses than men. Educational programs need to be designed to encourage women to lead in diffusion of cyberlearning. The writers desire to use the TAM approach in a study of university students in Taiwan and try to find that gender, computing skills, and prior experiences with computing were the most significant factors to predict acceptance or resistance to change. Finally, the writers would like to create an overall conceptual model, which inferred from original TAM constructs relationships for showing that cyberspace advocates have yet to promote a concept.
  • Keywords
    Internet; computer aided instruction; distance learning; gender issues; technology transfer; Web online distance course; conceptual model; cyberlearning; educational program; gender factor; technology acceptance model; Computer aided instruction; Computer networks; Computer science education; Distance learning; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Immune system; Information technology; Intelligent networks; Internet;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Technology: Research and Education, 2005. ITRE 2005. 3rd International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8932-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ITRE.2005.1503144
  • Filename
    1503144