ERIC Number: EJ1268812
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 22
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The Utility of the UTAUT: An Application to Mobile Learning Adoption in the Caribbean
Thomas, Troy; Singh, Lenandlar; Renville, Dwayne
International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, v16 n2 p122-143 2020
This paper focuses on the usefulness of the UTAUT model in explaining behavioural intention to adopt mobile learning in the Caribbean. It employs confirmatory factor analysis with robust maximum likelihood estimation, to evaluate the measures, comparability of the measures and to compare the means of the factors between five university-territory combinations. It estimates a full structural equations model to evaluate the UTAUT relationships with an added effect of facilitating conditions on behavioural intention and it finds little support for effects of effort expectancy and social factors on behavioural intention in the region. However, the impacts of performance expectancy and effort expectancy on behavioural intention are similar across the region. With the UTAUT model underperforming in the region, there is a need for further research to strengthen measurement of the factors and to improve the explained variance by determining measures that are relevant to the regions and which can be included in a modified model.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Intention, Electronic Learning, Universities, Adoption (Ideas), Predictor Variables, College Students, Measurement
International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology. University of the West Indies Open Campus, Dave Hill, St. Michael BB11000, Barbados. Tel: 868-663-9021; Fax: 868-645-9741; Web site: http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Barbados; Jamaica; Trinidad and Tobago; Guyana
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