Students’ attitudes and use of Information and Communication Technology in three contexts (work, study and leisure): a paper review

Abstract

The present manuscript is a paper review. We bring the collaborative work of Robert Edmunds, Mary Thorpe and Grainne Conole about higher education students’ attitudes and use on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in three different contexts: work, study and leisure. Their paper started off from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) designed in 1989 by F. D. Davis. The authors adapted the original questionnaire and applied a survey to 400 students of six different online courses in order to assess the “ease of use” and the “perceived usefulness” about ICT in the three contexts concluding that it is perceived most positively within the work dimension. As far as this review concerns, we understand that ICT is a solid possibility for leisure as the user can decide upon its use.