Modeling teachers acceptance of learning management system in higher education during COVID‐19 pandemic: A developing country perspective

• Published date: 01 February 2023
• Author: Idrees Waris,Irfan Hameed
• Date: 01 February 2023
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2821

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Modeling teachers acceptance of learning management system

in higher education during COVID-19 pandemic: A developing

country perspective

Idrees Waris

1

| Irfan Hameed

2

1

Department of Management Sciences,

University of Turbat, Turbat, Pakistan

2

College of Business Management, Institute of

Business Management, Karachi, Pakistan

Correspondence

Irfan Hameed, College of Business

Management, Institute of Business

Management, Karachi 75190, Pakistan.

Email: irfanhameed.iu@gmail.com

The ubiquity of the World Wide Web has provided massive opportunities to teachers

and learners around the globe to share knowledge anytime anywhere via learning

management system. Hence, considering the needs of the students; universities have

arranged the facilities of the learning management system. This study is an empirical

evaluation of university faculty members' intention to use a learning management

system. We extended Davis's (1989) Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to evalu-

ate faculty members' intention to use learning management system amid COVID-19.

Data were obtained from the faculty members of Pakistani universities through the

convenience sampling technique and analyzed using PLS-SEM. The outcomes of the

study revealed that perceived ease of using a learning management system, user-

interface design, and faculty members' innovativeness have a favorable impact on

their intention to use learning management system. Facilitating conditions positively

influenced intention to use learning management system. However, the positive rela-

tionship between facilitating conditions and perceived ease of using the learning

management system was insignificant. The results indicate that the extended TAM

model has effectively predicted faculty members' intention to use the learning man-

agement system. The findings of the current study can be used for the training and

development of faculty members by institutions and regulatory bodies in developing

countries.

KEYWORDS

facilitating conditions, innovativeness, intention to adopt, perceived ease of use, perceived

usefulness, user-interface design

1|INTRODUCTION

The traditional way of learning has been replaced by the use of the

internet. The usage of the internet is increasing rapidly and now peo-

ple can connect more conveniently by using various platforms. This is

evident with the fact that more than 45% (3.5 billion) population of

the world is the user of one or the other social media forum alone

(Hameed & Irfan, 2021). Through the availability of educational con-

tent on the internet people from various walks of life can interact to

achieve a common objective (Liu et al., 2010). Online courses have

got broader opportunities for development with the advent of online

education (Kaufmann & Buckner, 2019). The importance of online

learning has been highlighted by various authors around the world

(Harrison et al., 2018). Effective online teaching is heavily dependent

on the skills of the teacher teaching the course. The time management

skills of the faculty can be enhanced by providing training to the fac-

ulty members (Oyarzun et al., 2020). Among other essentials of online

teaching are technological competencies and instructional design.

These can also be developed with the help of tailored-made training

programs (Dunn & Rice, 2019; Roberts, 2018). Comprehending the

Received: 9 January 2021 Revised: 6 October 2021 Accepted: 18 May 2022

DOI: 10.1002/pa.2821

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