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Student Acceptance of Electronic Schoolbag Systems: An Empirical Study in China

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Hybrid Learning and Continuing Education (ICHL 2013)

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Advances in mobile technology create a novel way in mobile learning. The electronic schoolbag (e-Schoolbag) system represents the future of mobile learning. The introduction of the e-Schoolbag system will rapidly spread all over the world. This study tries to study the student acceptance of the e-Schoolbag system by extending the UTAUT model with the consideration of a critical element “political influence”. A Partial Least Squares (PLS) analysis is used to analyze the data collected from 300 students in Mainland China. The results of this study indicate that political influence is an important factor followed by ease of use factors that influences the behavioral intention for students to adopt the e-Schoolbag systems. This study contributes a research model for the study of technology acceptance in institutional contexts and provides recommendations for governments and colleges to formulate their strategies to motivate students to adopt e-Schoolbag systems for ubiquitous learning.

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  2. Department of Computer Science, City Unviersity of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

    Donny Chi Fai Lai

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  4. Deaprtment of Business Administration, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, 18 Chui Ling Road, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, China

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  5. Department of Computer Science, College of Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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Lai, I.K.W., Lai, D.C.F. (2013). Student Acceptance of Electronic Schoolbag Systems: An Empirical Study in China. In: Cheung, S.K.S., Fong, J., Fong, W., Wang, F.L., Kwok, L.F. (eds) Hybrid Learning and Continuing Education. ICHL 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39750-9_31

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