The Role of IT Security Awareness in the TAM Model of Students’ Motivation and Behavioural Intention to Use an E-learning Environment in Hungary – A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Abstract

The massive proliferation of digitilisation in the fields of industry and business in the second decade of the 21st century, the need of the digitalisation of the learning processes using (online) e-learning course in higher education as part of the renewal of education methodologies in Hungary brought along the need for the analysis of the adoption and use of e-learning (systems) among Hungarian students of the early Z generation. This paper aims to extend the TAM model with external factors such as digital learning, smart tools, IT security awareness to see whether these factors have a significant impact on the endogenous factors of the TAM model in the Hungarian environment. The data gathered in the survey was analysed using the SEM with the AMOS software. The analysis supported most of the hypotheses meaning that the model is applicable in the Hungarian context. Strategic decision makers and e-learning developers in higher education should consider the above mentioned factors when developing e-learning in higher education in Hungary.