Factors Predicting Faculty Members' Intention to Teach Online in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 10
  In Roundtable Session: Measurement and Aggregation in Online Learning

Abstract

Despite the benefits online education provides, some faculty still consider online teaching less effective than traditional teaching and are not convinced they want to be involved in distance education. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the movement toward online education is slow and not promising. The aim was to investigate faculty members’ intentions to teach online at the University of Hail in KSA based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The results indicated that the combined TPB constructs (attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control) significantly predicted faculty members’ intention to teach online and approximately 39.1% of the variance in the faculty’s behavioral intention to teach online was explained by these three predictors.

Authors

• Fahad Alenezi, University of Ha'il

• Hayley J. Mayall, Northern Illinois University