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The Higher Education Students’ Perception on IoT Acceptance as an Educational Facilitating Medium: Perception from Omani Context

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The Internet has become the veins that stimulate the economies, business, as well as educational and industrial processes. The Internet of Things (IoT) as an extension of the Internet and one of its emerging technologies is one of the promising technologies that infiltrated all aspects of our life especially education, whose platforms had to be digitized and made online earlier than anticipated due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The higher education represented by the students at the Omani universities in this research has dearth of studies that focus on the student’s intention to use this technology. Therefore, the main objectives are to investigate the role of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and relationship with intention to use the IoT in the academic and nonacademic tasks as perceived by university students. Also, relationship between ease of use and perceived usefulness is measured. PLS-SEM SmartPLS was used to analyze the relationships. Findings reveal a positive significant relationship between ease of use and behavior intention. Also, ease of use emerged as a positive and significant factor in controlling perceived usefulness toward the intention to use the IoT. However, perceived usefulness showed non-significant relationship with behavior intention.

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Taufiq-Hail, G.AM., Al Farsi, M.J.A., Sarea, A., Al Shamsi, I.R.H. (2023). The Higher Education Students’ Perception on IoT Acceptance as an Educational Facilitating Medium: Perception from Omani Context. In: Al Mubarak, M., Hamdan, A. (eds) Technological Sustainability and Business Competitive Advantage . Internet of Things. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35525-7_6

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