Teachers’ intention to use an electronic learning management system in the long term

ABSTRACT

The study aims to examine the factors influencing the long-term educators’ motivation to use ELMS. The study was conducted at School of Big Data and Computer Science, Hechi University, China. The research methodology consisted of the author's developed online questionnaire, which was designed to determine the motives for using ELMS in the educator's work. The sample is represented by 214 respondents, most of whom are men (64.1%), the bulk of the participants (46.1%) are 35–50 years old, 38.8% have 5–10 years of work experience in educational institutions, 29.4% are associate professors. It follows from the results that teachers have significant intentions to use ELMS in their future professional activities (overall mean = 3.99). Creation by the administration and government of favorable conditions for the introduction and use of technology did not receive high support (overall mean = 2.82). The results obtained can be used to build mathematical models in educational institutions that will help determine the intentions of the long-term use of ELMS by the teaching staff. Adjusted R-squared (0.428) of the model indicates a good level of predictive power.

KEYWORDS:

• Learning management
• learning management technologies
• motivation for the use of an electronic learning management system (ELMS)
• motives to use ELMS
• teacher's intention to use ELMS

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability

Data will be available on request.

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Funding

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Notes on contributors

Qiaoyi Huang

Qiaoyi Huang is a Master of Engineering, Lecturer at the College of Computer and Information Engineering, Hechi University, Hechi, China. Research interests: electronic learning, learning management, higher education, electronic learning management system, educational activities, and educational services.