ICT in Higher Education: An Exploration of Practices in Malaysian Universities
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been provided by higher education authorities to ensure that teachers use ICT to enhance their teaching, learning, and research outcomes. However, ICT has been found to be underutilized, especially by teachers. To investigate this issue, the tec...
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| author | A. Y. M. Atiquil Islam Magdalena Mo Ching Mok Xiaoqing Gu Jonathan Spector Chin Hai-Leng |
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| description | Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been provided by higher education authorities to ensure that teachers use ICT to enhance their teaching, learning, and research outcomes. However, ICT has been found to be underutilized, especially by teachers. To investigate this issue, the technology adoption and gratification (TAG) model was validated and used to examine Malaysian university teachers’ adoption and gratification of ICT for teaching and research purposes and then used to investigate the moderating effect of universities in different regions. The 397 teachers from the west and east Malaysian universities were surveyed using a stratified random sampling technique. The research data were analyzed using the three-stage structural equation modeling. There were focused use factors: 1) academic purpose; 2) research purpose; and 3) teaching purpose. The TAG model was useful in explaining differences in ICT uses. West Malaysian teachers’ perceived usefulness and ease of use mediated the relationships between computer self-efficacy, gratification, and intention to use ICT, respectively. However, for east Malaysian teachers, only perceived ease of use did not mediate the relationship between computer self-efficacy and gratification. Finally, west and east Malaysian teachers’ intentions to use ICT mediated the relationships between actual use, perceived usefulness, and ease of use. This paper confirms the utility of the TAG model for comparing teachers’ adoption and gratification of ICT. In addition, this paper provides a basis for the targeted professional development of teachers in the east and west Malaysian universities which were selected based on the known differences. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d5adb3191998448c925c0a6dee340df32025-08-22T23:09:27ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-017168921690810.1109/ACCESS.2019.28958798628951ICT in Higher Education: An Exploration of Practices in Malaysian UniversitiesA. Y. M. Atiquil Islam0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5430-8057Magdalena Mo Ching Mok1Xiaoqing Gu2Jonathan Spector3Chin Hai-Leng4Department of Educational Information Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, ChinaDepartment of Psychology|Assessment Research Centre, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong KongGraduate Institute of Educational Information and Measurement, National Taichung University of Education, Taichung, TaiwanDepartment of Learning Technologies, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USADepartment of Curriculum and Instructional Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaInformation and communication technologies (ICTs) have been provided by higher education authorities to ensure that teachers use ICT to enhance their teaching, learning, and research outcomes. However, ICT has been found to be underutilized, especially by teachers. To investigate this issue, the technology adoption and gratification (TAG) model was validated and used to examine Malaysian university teachers’ adoption and gratification of ICT for teaching and research purposes and then used to investigate the moderating effect of universities in different regions. The 397 teachers from the west and east Malaysian universities were surveyed using a stratified random sampling technique. The research data were analyzed using the three-stage structural equation modeling. There were focused use factors: 1) academic purpose; 2) research purpose; and 3) teaching purpose. The TAG model was useful in explaining differences in ICT uses. West Malaysian teachers’ perceived usefulness and ease of use mediated the relationships between computer self-efficacy, gratification, and intention to use ICT, respectively. However, for east Malaysian teachers, only perceived ease of use did not mediate the relationship between computer self-efficacy and gratification. Finally, west and east Malaysian teachers’ intentions to use ICT mediated the relationships between actual use, perceived usefulness, and ease of use. This paper confirms the utility of the TAG model for comparing teachers’ adoption and gratification of ICT. In addition, this paper provides a basis for the targeted professional development of teachers in the east and west Malaysian universities which were selected based on the known differences.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8628951/Information and communication technology (ICT)higher educationtechnology adoption and gratification (TAG) modelstructural equation modeling |
| spellingShingle | A. Y. M. Atiquil Islam Magdalena Mo Ching Mok Xiaoqing Gu Jonathan Spector Chin Hai-Leng ICT in Higher Education: An Exploration of Practices in Malaysian Universities IEEE Access Information and communication technology (ICT) higher education technology adoption and gratification (TAG) model structural equation modeling |
| title | ICT in Higher Education: An Exploration of Practices in Malaysian Universities |
| title_full | ICT in Higher Education: An Exploration of Practices in Malaysian Universities |
| title_fullStr | ICT in Higher Education: An Exploration of Practices in Malaysian Universities |
| title_full_unstemmed | ICT in Higher Education: An Exploration of Practices in Malaysian Universities |
| title_short | ICT in Higher Education: An Exploration of Practices in Malaysian Universities |
| title_sort | ict in higher education an exploration of practices in malaysian universities |
| topic | Information and communication technology (ICT) higher education technology adoption and gratification (TAG) model structural equation modeling |
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