Impact of student training on the perceived ease of use and ease of navigation of a learning management system

  • Authors:

  • Kevin McReynolds

  • Affiliations:

  • LDS Business College, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information technology education
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The impact of training for a new Learning Management System (LMS) was examined in this action research project. The study surveyed students (n=276) and determined that training did not affect the students' perceived ease of use of the LMS. The time to complete the training was significantly lower (m = 35.54) than estimated (2 hours), and it was concluded that online training may not be an effective intervention to improve technology use and adoption for a younger demographic. An unanticipated result of the study was that students grossly over-reported completion of training, and create a sample size too small for generalization to any population. This over reporting may be confirmation that survey fatigue is growing among the younger demographic. Over-reporting may be worthy of future study.