Affiliation(s)
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Chinese Language and Technology Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
ABSTRACT
Along with the development of
information and communications technology, open educational resources were widely
applied in training usage. The use of these resources facilitates the access to
knowledge by enabling learners to transcend time and space. In this way, learners
are able to obtain new knowledge more actively and efficiently than before. Using
Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as the theoretical foundation, this study aims
to explore the learning outcome of using open educational resources with the perceived
convenience as the external variable. In this study, the open educational resources
were defined as online courses on the Open Course Ware (OCW) and Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOCs), on which the learners choose courses themselves and study without
the impact from people, matters, time, space, and things with the help of the Internet.
To achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers
conducted a survey with the participants who had already used the open educational
resources. In total, 124 valid samples were collected. The Partial Least
Squares (PLS) statistical method was used to carry out the analysis. Overall, the
model of this study has good prediction and explanatory power. After the data analysis,
the study found that the perceived convenience
exerts a positive impact on the use of the open educational resources. In addition, among the four TAM variables, the perceived
usefulness does not exert a significant impact on the behavioral intention
to use, but the other three TAM variables all have a significant impact on the behavioral
intention.
KEYWORDS
Technology Acceptance Model
(TAM), perceived convenience, open educational resources, learning outcome
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