Abstract

Online meeting platforms have been widely utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the current shift from traditional learning. However, the acceptance of the different online meeting platforms for e-learning has been underexplored. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors for acceptance of an online learning platform among students during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 500 senior high school students voluntarily participated to answer constructs under the Extended Technology Acceptance Model (ETAM) and Delone and McLean IS Success Model. Several latent including user interface (UI), perceived ease of use (PEU), perceived usefulness (PU), information quality (IQ), system quality (SQ), behavioral intentions (BI), and actual use were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results indicated that PEU was found to have the greatest on actual use (AU), followed by UI and SQ towards PEU, which subsequently led to BI and AU. Finally, IQ was found to have a significant effect on PU, which led to BI and AU. The level of student acceptability considers the ease of use, user interface, system quality, information quality, leading to a positive behavioral intention for actual use. With that, it would be of best interest to consider the factors that would lead students towards accepting the platforms utilized and therefore the current education system. Moreover, this will lead to their acceptance and promote learning even with the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the model construct can be applied and utilized to analyze the online learning platforms in other countries.

Highlights

  • Worldwide education has been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  • The findings of the current study indicate that Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) indicated that perceived ease of use had a significant direct effect on the behavioral intentions of the user (β = 0.451 and p = 0.001)

  • The level of student acceptability considers the ease of use, user interface, system quality, information quality, leading to a positive behavioral intention for actual use

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Introduction

Worldwide education has been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The education learning is mainly delivered through online meeting platforms such as Blackboard Collaborate, Microsoft Teams, and Sustainability 2021, 13, 8365. These online meeting platforms served as virtual learning environment where students could learn without going to school [1]. The purpose of utilizing these platforms is to ease the communication between students and teachers for education to continue. These platforms are being introduced to promote a new type of education during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is widely known as e-Learning [2]

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