Electronic discussion forum has increasingly being utilized to complement the conventional ways of teaching by encouraging the students to take a more proactive approach towards learning. Despite the widespread application, antecedent evidence indicates that the forum may not be utilized to its full potential due to lower than expected student participation. Furthermore, little research has bee...

This study is one of the few attempts to investigate students’ acceptance of an Internet-based learning medium (ILM). By integrating a motivational perspective into the technology acceptance model, our model captured both extrinsic (perceived usefulness and ease of use) and intrinsic (perceived enjoyment) motivators for explaining students’ intention to use the new learning medium. Data collect...

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the Healthy Moms intervention on antenatal breastfeeding self-efficacy and intention and to determine the feasibility of using an online game-based learning platform to deliver antenatal breastfeeding education. BACKGROUND The Internet has potential for improving breastfeeding rates through improving women's access to antenatal breastfee...

The aim of this study is to explore the learners’ intention to return to the electronic environment through the use of Wikis. The study investigates both the lecturer’s perspective and students’ perceptions on the participation process. The survey is based on students’ participation in a collaborative group project over a one semester course on business information systems. 75% of students retu...

Imitation learning is a promising route to better collaboration between humans and artificial agents. It will be most effective if the agent has some cognitive-level “understanding” of a human demonstrator’s intentions. Inferring intent is an example of abductive reasoning, wherein an agent explains the available evidence based on causal knowledge. Good explanations should satisfy some notion o...

Flipped classroom is one approach of active learning leading to better students’ learning, abilities, and academic performance. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of applying the flipped classroom approach to MIS course, to examine the antecedents of engagement intention after participating the flipped classroom by peers, and to guide key factors of success student presentations. T...

This study examined the effectiveness of social learning (SL) or structuraldevelopmental (SD) teaching strategies on the moral development of elementary-age students. Participants were 204 physical education students in Grades 4,5, and 6; three classrooms in each grade were randomly assigned to control, SL, or SD groups. Self-report measures assessed moral judgment, reason, and intention; teach...

Although videoconferencing software and equipment have been widely used in enterprises and education in recent year, few past studies experimentally examined the factors influencing users’ continuous intention to attend one-to-some online courses via videoconferencing software in distance learning. In order to provide researchers with a better understanding of the determinants, this study devel...

The learner’s acceptance of e-learning systems has received extensive attention in prior studies, but how their experience of using e-learning systems impacts on their behavioural intention to reuse those systems has attracted limited research. As the applications of e-learning are still gaining momentum in developing countries, such as China, it is necessary to examine the relationships betwee...

Mobile learning has expanded the reach of electronic and distance education, which been made possible by modern technology globalization. There is a need to identify elements that are essential in determining behavioral intention towards mobile because there dearth scientific justification for their importance. The goal study ascertain how affected perceived entertainment, informativeness, irri...