Investigating the influences of e-learning compatibility and technology expectancy to acceptance of e-learning in one of Hong Kong Universities

Considering the perceptions of the student on acceptance of e-learning are not significant enough. There were abundant of research that have investigated the influence of the technological expectancy on the behavioral intention on the educational acceptance. But there are only a few of them are investigating the learning expectancy and educational compatibility of students.

In order to improve the investigation of student’s e-learning acceptance, not only consider about the technological aspects during the implantation of the e-learning system to the students but also the student’s expectancies, such as their expectancy on technology and learning expectancy.

In this report, student’s behavioral intention on their acceptance of e-learning is based on two main components which are the student’s technological expectancy and the e-learning compatibility. There are four primary factors in the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use Technology (UTAUT), including the performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions. Moreover, the e-learning compatibility is added to this hypotheses model in order to have a better idea of the acceptance of learning. Therefore, questionnaires are conducted to investigate and analyze the new theoretical model. Also, there are suggestions for the developers and relevant stakeholders on the implantation of the e-learning system.