Applying TAM in understanding academics behavior in adopting LMS in their profession

E-learning and blended learning is a familiar learning approach for students and lecturers alike in Indonesia and the ministry of high education even supports online learning as a way to increase people’s accessibility to higher education programs. Pivotal to online learning is the presence of Learning Management System (LMS) that integrates learning, message, and evaluation tools in one place and connect lecturers to their students. Indonesian lecturers have harnessed LMS of various kinds to fulfill their teaching objectives and to assist students in their learning process. Finding the factors that make lecturers utilize LMS in their job is necessary to predict LMS’ success in classroom. This paper presents a study using the technology acceptance model (TAM) as an attempt to analyze Indonesian lecturers’ behavioral intention to use LMS, using the core constructs in TAM; perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and attitude toward usage. The study added lecturers’ field of study and their amount of teaching hours as external variables. The result of this research suggests TAM was applicable in measuring Indonesian lecturers’ behavioral intention to use LMS. Furthermore, it also confirms the original TAM’s findings