Technology Adoption Factors in Education: A Review

Technology adoption examines the choices an individual makes in adopting and accepting or otherwise rejecting new technologies. Understanding the acceptance and rejection of technologies has been researched extensively to predict the level to which technology is integrated into the appropriate context. Recognizing the need for the success of this technologies in its appropriate context, this study will fulfil the objectives: (i) to present a review of prominent models and theories that have been used to predict and explain individual's adoption of technologies (ii) to present available empirical research on the use of technology adoption in educational context. 42 articles were initially selected which was filtered to 19 articles based on the selection criteria. These 19 articles were thoroughly examined to identify important aspects like models/theory used, relationship between variables, sampled population. Based on the findings of this review, TAM and its extension was found to be mostly used as the theoretical framework to explain factors that affect technologies in education, sampled participants were mainly students and the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was the most widely used data analysis method used by researchers in this field. The results of this review provide a better understanding of technology adoption studies in educational context and create a firm foundation for future research. Even though, research on technology adoption is ongoing, there are areas that can be expanded and improved to increase the predictive performance of technology adoption in education.

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