Behavioral Intention of Students in Higher Education Institutions Towards Online Learning During COVID-19

Qasim AlAjmi; Mohammed A. Al-Sharafi; Amr Abdullatif Yassin

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-67716-9_16

Behavioral Intention of Students in Higher Education Institutions Towards Online Learning During COVID-19

Qasim AlAjmi^*
, Mohammed A. Al-Sharafi
, Amr Abdullatif Yassin

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Across the world, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) were mandatory to transform their teaching model from face-to-face interaction to online learning. Neither the faculty nor the students were ready for this sudden transformation, most of the HEIs were practicing online learning for the sake of changing or technology adoption. COVID-19 changes the HEIs standpoint towards online delivery, as of mid of March 2020, the only online learning come to be the reasonable solution for teaching in schools and HEIs. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a research model to explore the effect of perceived enjoinment, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, social influence on the students’ intention and behavioral towards online learning during COVID-19 in Oman. The developed model was validated by employing Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and the data collected via online questionnaire from 191 students whom have just completed the “Educational Technology” course on Spring 2020 at A’Sharqiyah University-Oman (ASU). The main finding of this study indicating that the identified factors; PEOU and SI significantly influenced students’ Behavioral Intention (BI) towards online learning, where others; PE and PU were not supported in this study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	259-274
Number of pages	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67716-9_16
State	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
Volume	348
ISSN (Print)	2198-4182
ISSN (Electronic)	2198-4190

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

Covid-19 pandemic
Higher Education Institutions
Online learning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Control and Systems Engineering
Automotive Engineering
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Control and Optimization
Decision Sciences (miscellaneous)

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AlAjmi, Q., Al-Sharafi, M. A., & Yassin, A. A. (2021). Behavioral Intention of Students in Higher Education Institutions Towards Online Learning During COVID-19. In Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (pp. 259-274). (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control; Vol. 348). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67716-9_16

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