Open AccessTechnology acceptance of online instruction for vocational instructors in new normal education
Author(s) -
Panita Wannapiroon,
Prachyanun Nilsook,
Jira Jitsupa,
Sakchai Chaiyarak
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
world journal on educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1309-0348
pISSN - 1309-1506
DOI - 10.18844/wjet.v13i4.6234
Subject(s) - vocational education , consistency (knowledge bases) , psychology , construct (python library) , mathematics education , covid-19 , medical education , pedagogy , computer science , artificial intelligence , medicine , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language
This research aimed to: develop a model for vocational instructors’ acceptance of online instruction after they had arranged online instruction for one year; and investigate the consistency of this model using the empirical evidence gained from 1,818 vocational instructors from five regions in Thailand: the Northern Region, the Northeastern Region, the Central Region, the Eastern Region and Bangkok, and the Southern Region. The research instrument used to collect the data was a questionnaire on the vocational instructors’ acceptance of online instruction. The data were analysed using construct validity and the consistency of the causal relationship model. The research findings revealed that social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the vocational instructors’ adjusted attitudes towards online instruction for the better. This adjustment directly affected some changes in the instructors’ behaviour in physical classroom instruction to online instruction in the following period. Keywords: online learning, technology acceptance model, vocational education and training