Title
Why do teachers continue to use teaching blogs? The roles of perceived voluntariness and habit
Abstract
The importance of teaching blogs motivates schools to adopt them. The value realized from these teaching blogs depends on teachers' ongoing participation and contribution, but limited research explains why teachers continue to use teaching blogs after their initial adoption. To promote teachers' continued usage of teaching blogs, it is important to know the underlying reasons. This study extended Bhattacherjee's expectation-confirmation model by adding two moderating effects (perceived voluntariness and habit) on the intention-usage relationship. Longitudinal data were collected from a survey questionnaire completed by 195 Taiwanese senior and vocational school teachers. The partial least squares model was used to test the measurement and structural models. The results indicate that confirmation has a direct effect on perceived usefulness, while satisfaction is jointly determined by perceived usefulness and confirmation. The continuance intention of teaching blogs is jointly determined by satisfaction and perceived usefulness, with 34% variance explained. The continued usage of teaching blogs is jointly determined by perceived voluntariness and habit, with 42% variance explained. The results also show that a higher level of perceived voluntariness for teaching blogs increases the effect of continuance intention on continued usage. However, habit does not moderate the intention-usage relationship. The implications for theory and practice, as well as suggestions for future research, are also discussed. This study investigated the reasons teachers continue using a teaching blog.An extended expectation-confirmation model of teaching blog usage was developed.Voluntariness has a direct and moderating effect on the intention-usage link.Habit has a direct but not moderating effect on the intention-usage link.The proposed model explained 42% of the variance in continued blog usage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.compedu.2014.11.017
Computers & Education
Keywords
Field
DocType
human computer interface,learning communities
Social psychology,Vocational education,Continuance,Secondary education,Psychology,Habit,Pedagogy,Voluntariness,Explained variation,Learning community
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
82
C
0360-1315
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.45
42
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chin-Pin Chen1463.08
Hui-Min Lai224510.93
Chien-Yen Ho3110.45