Abstract
In today’s world, the technology has been embedded in all aspects of human life. The education sector has been at the forefront of technology adoption. Technology-enhanced learning (TEL) is a system of education that promotes the application of information and communication technology for teaching and learning and the concept of “bring your own device” (BYOD) supports this. BYOD is particularly beneficial for the education sector due to cost saving and comfort of using personal devices. Researchers believe that inclusion of technology must be supported by the user acceptance and the most popular framework to predict user acceptance of technology is the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) proposed by Davis. The paper describes the study conducted for the purpose of predicting the acceptance and utilization of BYOD by the college students based on TAM variables of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitude towards using, and behavioral intention to use. Additional external variables of teachers’ influence, facilitating conditions and peer influence are adopted to study the user acceptance of BYOD. A questionnaire based on the TAM variables was developed and used to gather information from students of a post graduate course in information technology of an Indian university. The results of analysis suggest that the considered variables have an impact on the overall behavioral intention to use BYOD and thus support the original findings of TAM.
Highlights
The education system around the world is becoming more and more dependent on information and communication technology (ICT)
The correlation coefficient between Perceived Ease of use (PEOU) and Attitude Towards Using (ATU) is 0.65 which indicates that there is a positive correlation between two variables
The integration of personal computing devices like laptops, tablets and smartphones into our daily lives has brought a revolution in the process of how we communicate with the world and access information
Summary
The education system around the world is becoming more and more dependent on information and communication technology (ICT). In the application of ICT in education, one of the popular ways of integrating technology with learning is the students using their personal devices for their studies. The adoption of bring your own device in the education sector can be motivated by two factors i.e. The cost saving due to students bringing their own devices is a big factor to motivate the educational institutes to promote BYOD. TAM is used to explain the factors that influence the computer acceptance of end-user regarding the usage of the new computing technologies. PEOU is defined as the degree to which a person believes that learning and adapting the use of a new technology would be easy. In the context of BYOD, PU and PEOU are the key factors in determining the acceptance of technology in the process of teaching and learning. Some people are highly motivated towards adopting new technologies may sometimes underestimate the difficulties that may be accompanied [6]
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