On the Role of Teachers’ Acceptance, Continuance Intention and Self-Efficacy in the Use of Digital Technologies in Teaching Practices

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought revolutionary changes in many spheres of life including the higher education sector, which has seen a major paradigm shift. The response to this has been in the form of switching to, or adopting the online teaching-learning methodologies for higher education in India. This study is a formal attempt to examine the influence of Perceived Usefulness (PU), Perceived Ease of Use (PEU), attitude, and Facilitating Conditions (FC) on the Continuance Intention (CIU) of the teacher for the use of various digital technologies in teaching practices. With the deployment of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a base, we present a model with six different inter-related constructs. The data for empirical investigations is sourced from nearly 250 respondents. Data analysis is carried out in two steps: a) Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), and b) path analysis with Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Reliability Analysis (RA) is done using Cronbach’s Alpha test. Data analysis reveals that FC and PEU significantly affect CIU to use digital technologies, which affects the Actual Use (AU). Also, the role of Self-efficacy (SE) as a moderating variable between CIU and AU for digital technologies in the study has been found to be significant.

KEYWORDS:

• Digital technologies
• higher education
• Internet and Communication Technology (ICT)
• Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)
• Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

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Sarika Sharma

Sarika Sharma is a Professor at the Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Symbiosis International (Deemed) University, Pune, India. She has teaching and research experience of 20 years. She is an author of six books on data mining for CRM, project risk management, and information technology management. She has more than 50 research publications to her credit in international and national journals of repute and has presented her research work in various conferences. She is also the Editor for International Journal on Technology Management and Cyber Times International Journal. She is a life member of professional bodies like Indian Science Congress, and ACM’s Computer Science Teachers Association.

A distinguished and established academician, researcher and administrator, Prof. Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini was awarded PhD in Computer Science in 2009. He has more than 150 research publications including those published by Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, ACM, Springer, IEEE and InderScience. He has papers with Thomson Reuters Impact Factor journals, more than 50 Scopus indexed published/in-press papers, more than 40 Web of Science indexed published/in-press papers and best paper awards by AICTE, IEEE, S4DS, ISTE, etc. With more than 485 citations, h-index of 11 and i10 index of 14, his papers have been cited in more than 40 countries by publications included in Elsevier, ACM, Springer, IEEE, Sage, Wiley, ACL, IET, IOS Press, World Scientific, Palgrave Macmillan, IOP Publications, PubMed, etc. including by world’s top-notch as well as 1st ranked International Journals.