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Voluntary Technology Acceptance: A Research on the Acceptance Behaviour of Internet Usage

Gönüllü Teknoloji Kabulü: İnternet Kullanımını Benimseme Davranışı Üzerine Bir Araştırma

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111–139
Publication Date
2022-10-18
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The results suggest that perceived usefulness, ease of use, enjoyment, technology anxiety and subjective norms are the important determinants of the students' Internet acceptance behaviors.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Internet offers many possibilities to the interested parties as a learning and teaching tool.
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Key Findings & Data:Educational institutions have a growing interest to incorporate this tool into their traditional classroom instructions for the enhancement and their distance-learning programs for the on-line extensions.
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Conclusion & Impact:The results suggest that perceived usefulness, ease of use, enjoyment, technology anxiety and subjective norms are the important determinants of the students' Internet acceptance behaviors.
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Internet offers many possibilities to the interested parties as a learning and teaching tool. Educational institutions have a growing interest to incorporate this tool into their traditional classroom instructions for the enhancement and their distance-learning programs for the on-line extensions. The results of the prior researchs show that the most critical factor affecting the success of these efforts is the student's acceptance of the Internet. Although the literature is full of theories aimed to explain the individual technology acceptance in both mandatory and voluntary settings, there isn't any general agreement on how to explain specifically Internet acceptance behavior. So, the purpose of this study is to develop and test a structured model predicting the students' acceptance of Internet by unifying the different theories from the Information Technologies field. In this framework, a theoretical research model reflecting the relationships between perceived usefulness, ease of use, enjoyment, selfefficacy, facilitating conditions, technology anxiety, subjective norms and behavioral intentions is proposed. Expiatory, confirmatory and SEM (Structural Equation Model) analysis are applied to examine the casual ordering in the research model by using data collected from 306 students. The results suggest that perceived usefulness, ease of use, enjoyment, technology anxiety and subjective norms are the important determinants of the students' Internet acceptance behaviors.

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İnternet, bir öğretim ve öğrenim aracı olarak ilgili taraflara birçok fırsatlar sunmaktadır. Eğitim kurumları, sınıf ortamında verdikleri dersleri desteklemek ve uzaktan yaygın eğitim programlarının çevrimiçi uzantılarını gerçekleştirmek amacıyla artan oranda interneti kullanmaktadır. Yapılan araştırmalar, bu kurumların İnternetle bütünleşme çabalarının başarısını etkileyen kritik faktörün, İnternetin öğrenciler tarafından benimsenmesi olduğunu göstermektedir. Yazında zorunlu ve gönüllü teknoloji kabulünü açıklayan farklı kuramlar bulunmasına rağmen, özellikle İnternet kullanımını benimseme davranışının nasıl açıklanacağı konusunda bir fikir birliği bulunmamaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı; yazındaki farklı kuramları birleştirerek, öğrencilerin İnterneti benimseme davranışlarını tahmin eden yapısal bir modelin geliştirilmesi ve uygunluğunun denenmesidir. Bu kapsamda algılanan kullanışlılık, kullanım kolaylığı, kullanım keyfi, kişisel yeterlilik, zemin hazırlayıcı şartlar, teknoloji korkusu, öznel normlar ve davranışsal eğilimler arasındaki ilişkileri yansıtan kuramsal bir araştırma modeli oluşturulmuştur. 306 üniversite öğrencisinden elde edilen veriler kullanılarak açıklayıcı, doğrulayıcı ve Yapısal Denklem Modelleme (SEM) analizleri gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda algılanan kullanışlılık, kullanım kolaylığı, kullanım keyfi, teknoloji korkusu ve öznel normların, öğrencilerin İnterneti benimseme davranışlarını etkiledikleri bulunmuştur.

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ÇELİK, H., İPÇİOĞLU, İ. (2022). Voluntary Technology Acceptance: A Research on the Acceptance Behaviour of Internet Usage. Hacettepe Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, Cilt: 24 - Sayı: 1, 111–139. https://ajindex.com/articles/533258

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