Abstract
Adoption of new innovated technologies has become an important requirement for a successful development and implementation of computer systems. Mobile cloud learning is a relatively recent paradigm shift that provides significant promise for meeting future education development and delivery requirements based on mobile cloud computing. The focal point of this study is to develop a conceptual model which highlights the effects of information cultural factors on the adoption of mobile cloud learning in higher education environments. The proposed model is developed based on four identified information cultural variables, namely information integrity, formality, control and pro-activeness. A pilot survey is conducted to test the questionnaire using a small sample of information systems experts and university lecturers. The results show acceptable reliability and validity of the instrument. Finally, conclusions, possible practical contributions of this study and some of the directions for upcoming research are discussed.
Highlights
The education institutions always seek for new and advanced technologies to facilitate online information and knowledge sharing among researchers, lecturers and students
Understanding the factors that may affect the adoption of mobile cloud learning in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) will help exploring the potential of estimating and predicting the success of adopting these technologies before applying them
The convergent and discriminant validity of all constructs was established with the help of Average Variance Extracted (AVE) and composite reliability (CR) statistics
Summary
The education institutions always seek for new and advanced technologies to facilitate online information and knowledge sharing among researchers, lecturers and students. USA and Japan are good examples of developed countries that already use the recent technology of cloud computing to cut the cost of ICT infrastructure and IT-based services. Numerous challenges have been encountered by the adoption of mobile cloud learning services amongst the HEIs [12] Such challenges include the lack of investigation for the impact of information culture factors on mobile cloud learning, in Jordan. This study aims to propose a model to explore the information cultural factors impacting HEIs to adopt mobile cloud services This proposed model uses four factors that represent the most important information behaviors and values. Information integrity, information formality, information control, and information pro-activeness are presented as influencing factors that directly affect the adoption of mobile cloud learning services in the Jordanian HEIs
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