A study on teachers' perception towards E-learning adoption in higher educational institutions in India during the COVID-19 pandemic
Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning
ISSN: 2042-3896
Article publication date: 12 October 2022
Issue publication date: 8 September 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The present study examines the foremost determinants of teachers' perception, i.e. teachers' satisfaction, attitude and continuance intention towards adopting e-learning in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in India during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected through online Google forms from 1,111 (1,060 considered useable) teachers of different HEIs in India using the purposive sampling technique and was analyzed by PLS-SEM (performing partial least squares-structural equation modeling).
Findings
Results of this study show that perceived usefulness (PU) followed by institutional support, perceived ease of use (PEOU), and teacher-student interaction positively and significantly impact teachers' satisfaction. Results also revealed that perceived usefulness (PU), institutional support, and satisfaction significantly affect teachers' attitude. Finally and most notably, teachers' continuance intention towards using online teaching in HEIs is most significantly influenced by teachers' satisfaction than perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU), and attitude.
Originality/value
The authors anticipate that this study brings a significant and valuable input to the existing literature by providing inclusive research in a more harmonizing understanding of the teachers' satisfaction, attitude, and continuance intention with online teaching-learning practices in diverse educational institutions.
Keywords
Acknowledgements
The authors want to thank the editor, guest editors, and the anonymous reviewers, whose valuable comments aided in improving the quality of the paper.
Funding: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Conflicts of interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to report.
Credit author statement: Pankaj Kumar: Conceptualization, Writing, Methodology, Writing-Original draft preparation, Data curation, Parveen Kumar: Writing, Data Curation, Data analysis using and Smart-PLS, Ramesh Kumar Garg: Data Curation and Reviewing, Manoj Panwar: Writing and Data Curation, Vaibhav Aggarwal: Reviewing and Editing.
Citation
Kumar, P., Kumar, P., Garg, R.K., Panwar, M. and Aggarwal, V. (2023), "A study on teachers' perception towards E-learning adoption in higher educational institutions in India during the COVID-19 pandemic", Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 720-738. https://doi.org/10.1108/HESWBL-03-2022-0052
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2022, Emerald Publishing Limited