With the development of information technology and the Internet, e-learning have been gradually replaced the face-to-face teaching method. The advantages of e-learning including time and space free of restriction. Therefore, learners are free to choose learning time, place and topics. The main purpose of this study is to investigate hospital employees’ behavioral intentions toward the hospital-based e-learning system.
In this study, a structured questionnaire survey was conducted to understand hospital employees’ behavioral intentions. In February to March, 2010, employees that working in a regional teaching hospital in central Taichung were asked to answer the questionnaire survey and the total valid samples were 317.
The results of this research showed: 1. Hospital employee perceived anxiety, perceived enjoyment and perceived self-efficacy could predict perceived ease of use. 2. Hospital employee subjective norm and perceived ease of use could predict perceived usefulness. 3. Hospital employee subjective norm, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and perceived self-efficacy could predict behavioral intentions. The biggest contributor is the perceived self-efficacy that could explain 35.3% of the variance on behavioral intentions.
From the results of statistical analyses, the higher perceived self-efficacy the more behavior intentions. In the future of hospitals using e-learning systems, enhancing perceived self-efficacy can improve employees’ positive attitudes toward e-learning systems. Additionally, increasing perceived usefulness can also improve employees behavioral intentions toward e-learning systems and; therefore, can increase their learning performance.
