Technology acceptance for online teaching-learning: perspectives of teachers from higher education in India

ABSTRACT The sudden outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a transition to an online teaching-learning (OTL) methodology, forcing India’s institutions to adopt it. The present study investigates OTL’s acceptance by faculty instructors/teachers employed in India’s higher educational institutions using the technology acceptance model (TAM). A survey of 433 respondents studied the intention to use OTL by teachers. The study considered India’s higher educational institutions and utilized web-based questionnaire survey methods for collecting the responses. The study found support for OTL’s perceived usefulness and the perceived ease of use, facilitating conditions to be significant determinants for attitude towards the use of technology by users. The study introduced service conditions related to the faculty instructor/teacher’s employment in the higher educational institutions and its bearing on their work routine. The study did not find service conditions as a significant determinant of attitude towards using OTL technology. The results present evidence of a valid model to predict technology acceptance among India’s teachers.