Factors enabling the acceptance and use of a podcast aggregator in accounting education
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Factors enabling the acceptance and use of a podcast aggregator in accounting education Alex Sandro Rodrigues Martins 1 & Alexandre Costa Quintana 2 Débora Gomes de Gomes 1
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Received: 31 March 2020 / Accepted: 17 May 2020/ # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The aims of the current study are to identify the behavioral factors enabling students’ acceptance and use of a podcast aggregator that provides tips about contents taught in the classroom, as well as to investigate its impact on knowledge formation among Accounting Sciences undergraduate students from a Federal University in Southern Brazil, based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and on Vygotsky’s Historical-Cultural Theory. Data were collected through the application of an on-site questionnaire comprising closed questions and through diagnostic evaluations based on Vygotsky’s theory. The Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) conducted in the SPSS v. 017 and SmartPLS v. 2.0 software, as well as the content analysis conducted in the NVivo software, were the data analysis techniques adopted in the current study. The current research is justified by the need of conducting studies based on education theories and on theoretical frameworks associated with technology acceptance in order to help better understanding to what extent technology contributes to cognitive development. According to the current results, it was possible concluding that students’ acceptance and use of the podcast aggregator in both investigated classes was motivated by aspects such as social influence and performance expectations. Keywords Education technologies . UTAUT . Podcasts . Education
* Alexandre Costa Quintana [email protected] Alex Sandro Rodrigues Martins [email protected] Débora Gomes de Gomes [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
Education and Information Technologies
1 Introduction Information technology (IT) has contributed to the evolution of educational methods focused on introducing technological resources in the teaching-learning process, based on the use of computer equipment such as tablets, laptops, cellphones and desktops. There are also experiments focused on developing applications for mobile devices to help students understand the knowledge transmitted by teaching professionals, which gives them the opportunity to learn outside the classroom, regardless of their location or time zone (Basoglu and Akdenir 2010). Education has been changing due to technology use. Changes observed in this field are not only linked to content organization, selection and availability; they are also associated with knowledge dissemination through interactivity. This factor should be the reason for educational institutions to adapt to this new education phase in order to avoid losing ground in digital society (Fava 2009). It is worth emphasizing that the likely success in including technological resources in the teachi
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