FROG VLE: TEACHERS’ TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE USING UTAUT MODEL

In Malaysia, Frog VLE was introduced to 10,000 schools through the 1BestariNet project. It is an award-winning, cloud-based virtual learning environment designed by Frog Education which facilitates the mastery of the skills such as communication, teaching and learning and school management. Frog VLE is not just used in Malaysia Even in the rest of world, where 23 countries, 12,000 schools and 20 million users engaging with the community of teachers and students. It is appropriate to measure the level of acceptance of this technology to ascertain whether investment in 1BestraiNet project provides a significant internal rate of return. Therefore, researchers choose the UTAUT model to measure the level of acceptance of this technology. 146 secondary school teachers participated in this study. Researchers adapted questionnaire suggested by Venkatesh et al. (2003) to gather data and then analyzed with two main statistical packages such as IBM SPSS and SmartPLS 3.0. The research output shows that Performance Expectancy (PE) (β=0.4677, p<0.01), Social Influence (SI) (β= 0.2450, p<0.01) and Facilitating Conditions (FC) (β=0.2760, p<0.01) have positive influence towards Behavioral Intention (BI) except Effort expectancy (EE) (β=0.0780, p>0.01) shows insignificant relationship. The R square of 0.421 or (42.1%) shows that the percentage of contribution of independent variables (PE, EE, SI and FC) to dependent variable (BI) equal to 62.1%. These findings hoped to help and encourage stakeholders to realize current trend of Frog VLE usage among teachers in Kuala Muda District.