Exploring Children on Acceptance to Mobile-Learning of English E-book Usage and Effect Research

• Main Authors: Jia-Yu Lin, 林家妤
• Other Authors: Lola C.P. Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54636240492925154181

碩士 === 元智大學 === 資訊傳播學系 === 99 === E-book market has been rapidly growing since Amazon published Kindle in 2007 while Apple has pushed e-book to the high peak once it released ipad with complete service value chain in 2010. Taiwan government also gives weight to e-book development and promotion by naming 2010 “The First Year of E-book” in which Ministry of Economic Affairs promises to subsidize 100 million in two years so as to encourage industries to plunge into e-book market applications and services. E-book brings about boundless imagination to academia and industry worldwide, and they’ve kept advocating the idea of “educational technology” where the main core is how to take advantage of existing technology and products of e-book for the sake of creating a brand-new educational environment in the future. Because e-book reading behavior is as a medium through information technology, using e-books is a sort of adoption of information technology. Therefore, this research collates related theories of E-learning and M-learning in the past few years in Taiwan. As these theoretical frameworks mentioned above, we can also survey children’s attitudes in accepting and using e-books and the feasibilities of expending e-books in children’s learning. This research is for the one who is interested in this topic reference. There have been numerous theoretical models developed in the area of technology acceptance behavior. However, the concepts, the variables and the causalities of each theoretical model are different. That’s why we are going to clarify all these theoretical models, and then filter out integration models including Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) suitable for this research with the property of e-book. We argue that the key point of e-learning is not providing advanced hardware to kids. It is essential to understand how to break the limitation of time and space through the combination of mobile information technology and situational teaching so as to let every kid gain a chance to learn is the essential part of mobile-learning.