A Study on Acceptance of Mobile School at Secondary Schools in Iraq: Urban vs. Rural

摘要

Developing countries are facing dilemma where sophisticated technologies are more advance as compared to the way their people think. In education, there have been many novel approaches and technologies were introduced. However, very minimal efforts were put to apply in our education. Mobile school is a mobile learning (m-Learning) management system, developed for administrative, teaching and learning processes at secondary schools in Iraq. The study presents the acceptance of mobile school between urban and rural secondary schools in Iraq. Research framework was designed based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The constructs of the framework include computer anxiety, self-efficacy, facilitating condition, technological complexity, perceived behavioral control, perceive ease of use, perceive usefulness and attitude. Questionnaire was applied as research instrument which involved 373 students from four secondary schools (two schools in urban category and another two in rural category) in Perak. Inferential analyses using hypothesis and t-test and descriptive analyses using mean and percentage were used to analyze the data. Results showed that there were no big difference (<20%) of all acceptance constructs between urban and rural secondary schools except computer anxiety.