Analysis Approach to Identify Factors Influencing Digital Learning Technology Adoption and Utilization in Developing Countries

Abubaker Kashada,Hongguang Li,Osama Koshadah

doi:10.3991/ijet.v13i02.7399

Abstract

The Internet has given learners the ability to learn anytime and anywhere at their own pace facilitated by interactive and adaptive software. Digital learning technology is more than just providing students with a laptop. Digital learning requires a combination of technology, digital content, and instruction. This study aims to identify and observe the impact and mediation of top management support in relation to the successful adoption of digital learning technologies in developing countries. A questionnaire was designed and distributed to rate the successful adoption and utilization of digital learning technologies in developing countries and data was analyzed using structural equation modeling. This study provides empirical evidence and explains many complex factors, such as user awareness, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and information communication technology infrastructure, in the context of top management support to facilitate the effective utilization of a digital learning technology. Mediating the top management support between adoption of a digital learning technology and user awareness, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use provides clear and crucial evidence to support the effective adoption of a digital learning technology.

Highlights

Digital learning technology (DLT) is defined as any type of learning that facilitated by instructional practice or by technology that makes effective use of technology and gives students some element of control over place, time, path and/or pace
Information technology infrastructure showed a positive significant direct effect on the successful adoption of the DLT. These findings show that top management support has a positive direct effect on the successful adoption of the DLT, which is consistent with the findings of a previous study [20]
We found that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use have a positive indirect effect on the successful adoption of the DLT, which is consistent with the findings of previous studies [9], [15], [21]

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Introduction

Digital learning technology (DLT) is defined as any type of learning that facilitated by instructional practice or by technology that makes effective use of technology and gives students some element of control over place, time, path and/or pace. The developing countries are a region which has suffered both financially, economically, and technologically compared to the rest of the globe and the process of DLT adoption facing challenges and obstacles in almost all the developing countries and is rather still at initial stages and slow growing in some cases due to a number of factors such as, personal, organizational, and technological challenges. In such countries, adoption and utilization of DLT in educational institutions are at an early stage [5]

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