Student attitudes towards and use of ICT in course study, work and social activity: A technology acceptance model approach

Abstract

The increasing use of information and communication technology (ICT) in higher education has been explored largely in relation to student experience of coursework and university life. Students' lives and experience beyond the university have been largely unexplored. Research into student experience of ICT used a validated modelThe Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) -to explore the influence of work and social/leisure contexts as well as course study, on attitudes towards and take up of technology. The results suggest that usefulness and ease of use are key dimensions of students' attitudes towards technology in all three contexts but that ICT is perceived most positively in the context of work and technology use at work is an important driver for technology use in other areas. 3Introduction Educational leaders and governments have for more than a decade promoted the desirability of increased use of ICT in students' experience of study at university. This was one of the emphases in the 1997 Dearing Report in the UK, which recommended that 'all higher education institutions in the UK should have in place overarching communications and information strategies by 1999/2000 ' (Dearing, 1997.With the growth of the Web since then, and particularly the development of highly efficient search engines and social networking tools, entrants to university have increased their personal use of ICT, year on year (Caruso & Kvavik, 2005, Kennedy, Judd, Churchward, Gray and Krause, 2009). The impact of ICT on study and learning practices has generated research seeking to identify both the extent of ICT usage and the effects this is having on student experience at university more broadly (Conole, De Laat, Dillon and Darby, 2006).

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