Network Path Analysis for developing an enhanced TAM model: A user-centric e-learning perspective

Abstract The substantial use of Internet technologies for training and learning purposes of organisations has created a need to comprehend how various user-centric involvements can impact the recognized determinants of Information Technology design, acceptance and usage. This paper focuses at building a user centric framework for e-learning technologies, incorporating the constructs of security, privacy and trust with the proposal of a Network Path Analysis (NPA) algorithm. The existing Technology Acceptance Models (TAM) models are concerned with general e-commerce and retailing solutions alone. An enhanced version of the TAM model for the user-centric framework design of e-learning solutions is developed in this paper. An NPA algorithm focussing on the confirmatory data analysis of the dataset is developed to generate network models among the variables in e-learning solutions. User centric attributes, like Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, Perceived Trust, Perceived Security, Perceived Privacy, Information Quality, Behavioral Intention to Use the System and Actual System Use are measured and analysed to create the enhanced model.

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