Student-Informed Technology Adoption in Higher Education of Developing Countries

As traditional information technology systems become more costlier and complex to maintain, they are also no longer able to meet current educational requirements, notwithstanding issues with the lack of scalability and flexibility. Many of these issues can be addressed by the concept of Student-Informed Technology and a newly-proposed comprehensive technology readiness adoption (CTRAM) model. The five central components of CTRAM were assessed at six different universities in Nigeria which comprises of three public/Government-funded universities and three private-owned universities. The result of the study confirmed that subjective norms of students evidence a statistically significant relationship with student perceptions of cloud technology adoption in higher educational institutions in the country. All five CTRAM components: perceived innovation, perceived usefulness, perceived easiness, attitude toward technology and perceived reliability are statistically significant as a technological factor in determining students’ perception of cloud technology adoption. Results from multiple regression also clearly indicate the potential joint effect among all five factors. These findings support the existing body of knowledge regarding technological adoption in the educational sector, especially in developing countries towards their future investment and improvement.