Διερεύνηση αποδοχής της εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευσης εν μέσω της πανδημίας Covid-19 μεταξύ των φοιτητών του τμήματος Μηχανικών Πληροφορικής και Υπολογιστών του Πανεπιστημίου Δυτικής Αττικής

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the factors that affect on the acceptance of e-learning, as well as the degree of their effect, amidst Covid-19 pandemic among students of the Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering of the University of West Attica (PA.DA.). Therefore, an adapted Technological Acceptance Model (TAM) was therefore used, which is widely used for a lot of number of studies. In particular, in the basic constructions of the TAM model proposed by Davis et al. (1989), three exogenous constructs were added: Computer Self-Efficacy (CSE), prior E-Learning Experience (XEL) and Perceived Enjoyment (PE). The data were collected from 201 students (undergraduate and postgraduate level) of the specific department and for their analysis were used the statistical package for Social Sciences SPSS 20 and the software SmartPLS 3 GmbH, in which was actualized the analysis method Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), to evaluate and measure the proposed model. The results emerged that: a) the proposed TAM-based model successfully explains almost all the factors that affect in the use of e-learning, as well as their degree of effect b) the most significant positive effect is the Perceived Ease Of Use (PEOU) in the Attitude (AT) towards use of e-learning. The following is the Perceivd of Use (PU) in the Behavioral Intention of Use (BIU), and c) all positive effects between TAM constructs were confirmed statistically significant, except for one, the effect of the Computer Self-Efficacy (CSE) in the Perceived Usefulness (PU), which although had a positive sign, was not statistically significant.