TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of cognitive style on user acceptance of blogs and podcasts
AU - Saeed, Nauman
AU - Yang, Yun
AU - Sinnappan, Suku
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Blogs and podcasts are emerging Web technologies that have been adopted by educators to facilitate oncampus and distance education. However, little is known about user acceptance of these technologies. In this paper, we empirically test a theoretical model to examine the effects of individual's cognitive style on user acceptance of blogs and podcasts. We incorporated a course blog and series of lecture podcasts in a Web programming course and collected students' feedback on the technology usage. Empirical findings suggest that individual's cognitive style has significant effects on user acceptance of blogs and podcasts. However, students with innovative cognitive style are more likely to perceive these technologies as useful and easy-to-use as compared to their adaptor counterparts. Also, innovators perceive podcasts as more useful than blog whilst blog as more easy-to-use than podcasts.
AB - Blogs and podcasts are emerging Web technologies that have been adopted by educators to facilitate oncampus and distance education. However, little is known about user acceptance of these technologies. In this paper, we empirically test a theoretical model to examine the effects of individual's cognitive style on user acceptance of blogs and podcasts. We incorporated a course blog and series of lecture podcasts in a Web programming course and collected students' feedback on the technology usage. Empirical findings suggest that individual's cognitive style has significant effects on user acceptance of blogs and podcasts. However, students with innovative cognitive style are more likely to perceive these technologies as useful and easy-to-use as compared to their adaptor counterparts. Also, innovators perceive podcasts as more useful than blog whilst blog as more easy-to-use than podcasts.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70449395785&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICALT.2009.83
DO - 10.1109/ICALT.2009.83
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:70449395785
SN - 9780769537115
T3 - Proceedings - 2009 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2009
SP - 293
EP - 297
BT - Proceedings - 2009 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2009
T2 - 2009 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2009
Y2 - 15 July 2009 through 17 July 2009
ER -