IT Infrastructure and Perceived Ease of Use to Increase E-Learning Adoption

Abstract

The pandemic in 2020 known as Covid-19 had an impact on independent learning at home. Learning in university ultimately needs to be done online because of face-to-face restrictions. However, online learning activities ultimately affect the level of student motivation in learning. Examining the implementation of learning system on the university, the purpose of this study is to evaluate e-Iearning adoption on student psychological motivation through IT infrastructure support and perceived ease of use. This research examines a model with the goal of student psychological motivation, so that a study was carried out on students with a total of 149 respondents. The research method was carried out by quantitative surveys and research data obtained from questionnaires. Research with path analysis was conducted to evaluate the research model. In testing the research model, a study was carried out through the evaluation of research hypotheses. The findings in the model test results it is known that IT infrastructure and perceived ease of use are important for student regarding adoption to online learning. Another finding was conveyed that e-Iearning adoption can increase students' psychological motivation. The research findings focus on the mediation model of e-Iearning adoption; furthermore for universities, this model can be used as input on the implementation of online learning. Model adaptation aims to increase student motivation in dealing with online learning.