An Integrated Conceptual Model for Understanding the Adoption of Learning Management Systems in Higher Education During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Abstract

Regardless of the varying rates of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak worldwide, the vast majority of countries have deployed distance e-learning alternatives to flatten the trajectory of the disease proliferation. Despite that, various challenges emerge while endeavoring to deliver purely online education under the emergency lockdowns of all educational institutions with a specific focus on tertiary educational campuses. Online learning has fully substituted the blended modalities of learning prevalent in the period preceding the coronavirus crisis. Thence, the need to examine the factors influencing the full adoption of Learning Management Systems (LMS) in higher education institutions has become even more insisting. Higher education institutions are obliged not to compromise quality assurance benchmarks under exceptional pandemic circumstances accompanying home quarantine encapsulated with anxiety and uncertainty. This theoretical chapter’s chief objective is to construct and adopt a hybrid theoretical framework driven from the most comprehensive technology acceptance and information systems success models. This chapter’s value lies in proposing an extended model to be validated in subsequent studies to examine the factors influencing LMS adoption under epidemic circumstances.