Investigating Smartphone Users’ Attitude and Intention Technology Acceptance Model TAM

The significance of IT in teaching and learning in this digital age cannot be over emphasized, especially, Nigeria being a developing nation. IT facilities and devices such as the smartphones have been established to positively aid learning. However, despite the obvious benefits accruing to the existence of ICT in teaching and learning in Nigeria, it has been discovered through literatures that nothing much has been done in north east Nigeria, both in terms of schools employing e learning and researches to drive it, particularly Taraba State. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate mobile users' attitude and intention to use smartphones for learning, using Technology Acceptance Model at Institute for Distance Education and Life long Learning IDELL , TarabaState University TSU , Jalingo. For this study, survey design was adopted. The population comprised 71 students in year 2 class and total enumeration was used with 70 responses. Data were collected using questionnaire and analysed with SPSS using frequency distribution. This study found out that perceived ease of use positively influenced attitude towards using smartphones for learning by students of IDELL. The study also revealed that perceived usefulness positively influenced attitude towards using smartphone for learning by students of IDELL. Again, as the study discovered, both perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness positively influence attitude towards using smartphones for learning, which will in turn influence intention to use smartphones for learning. It was also revealed that perceived usefulness alone have the capacity to influence behavioural intention to use smartphones for learning at IDELL, Taraba State University, Jalingo. Finally, recommendations were proffered. Philip Zhino Aboki | Jonathan Iliya Apuru | Jeremy Zevini Bako "Investigating Smartphone Users' Attitude and Intention: Technology Acceptance Model - TAM" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-2 , February 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd49394.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/other/49394/investigating-smartphone-users'-attitude-and-intention-technology-acceptance-model--tam/philip-zhino-aboki