Assessing the intention to use e-book among engineering undergraduates in Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

作者：Letchumanan Malathi^*; Tarmizi Rohani

来源：Library Hi Tech, 2011, 29(3): 512-528.

DOI：10.1108/07378831111174459

• Technology acceptance model
• Undergraduates
• Gender
• Malaysia
• Information technology
• E-books
• E-learning

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the intention of using e-books as learning material among undergraduates from an engineering department by using the technology acceptance model (TAM) and gender as its external variable.
Design/methodology/approach - A survey through questionnaire was conducted to collect data from the respondents. Data from 169 respondents who had experience in using e-book were analyzed in terms of factor analysis and structural equation modeling.
Results - The analysis shows that perceived ease of use is positively related to perceived usefulness. Perceived usefulness has significant effect on attitude and intention to use e-books. Meanwhile, attitude has significant effect on intention to use. However, perceived ease of use has no significant effect on attitude towards using e-books. In addition, gender appeared to have no significant effects either on perceived ease of use or perceived usefulness.
Research limitations/implications - The study did not utilize the entire TAM where actual technology use is not included in this study.
Practical implications - The study is important in terms of obtaining better understanding of e-book reading intention among engineering undergraduates who are the real users of e-books. By obtaining the respondents' perception on their intentions, action can be taken on how to motivate the non-users of e-books to form the intention to use e-books.
Originality/value - This is believed to be the first published study of engineering undergraduates' intention on using e-books in Universiti Putra Malaysia.

• 出版日期2011