FACTORS INFLUENCING UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTER APPLICATIONS STUDENTS TOWARDS LMS GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Abstract

The educational institutions at present are in a time of converging to online mode of teaching and learning. Academic institutions have to face new challenges every day to impart knowledge to the students. Educators are forced to apply new tools and techniques so the students can learn with ease with less resource. Higher educational institutions around the world are undergoing rapid changes as they adapt to the paradigm shift of the knowledge society. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) with the integration in education has given lot of benefits with the increase in quality of learning, technological skills, interactive and promoting teachers and students’ performance. Many educational institutes have tried to bring in Learning Management Systems (LMS) to aid the face to face learning procedure. Google Classroom is a Learning Management System (LMS) which includes several tools that provide higher educational institute efficient and effectual means to support distance education and enhance their traditional way of teaching. This study with the sample of undergraduate computer applications students analyses the critical factors like perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitude toward usage, behavioural intention to use, self-efficacy and access control which influenced students’ towards Google classroom in higher education.