Dataset on the Acceptance of e-learning System among Universities Students' under the COVID-19 Pandemic Conditions

• Main Authors: Manaf Al-Okaily, Hamza Alqudah, Ali Matar, Abdalwali Lutfi, Abdallah Taamneh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020-10-01
• Series: Data in Brief
• Subjects: Distance learning; e-learning system; COVID-19; Corona virus; Acceptance; Jordan universities
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920310702

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced an unprecedented change in the educational system worldwide. Besides the economic and social impacts, there is a dilemma of accepting the new educational system ''e-learning'' by students within educational institutions. In particular, universities students have to handle several kinds of environmental, electronic and mental struggles due to COVID-19. To catch the current circumstances of more than two hundred thousand Jordanian university student during COVID-19. The students have been randomly selected to respond on an online survey using universities' portals and websites between March and April 2020. At the end of the data gathering process, we have received 587 records. The dataset includes 1) Demographics of students; 2) students’ perspectives concerning the factors influencing their intention to use e-learning system within the Jordanian universities context. Data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). Next, the result has confirmed the positive of direct effect variables (subjective norm, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness) on the students’ intention to use e-learning system. Next, the result has also confirmed the mediating effect of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use between subjective norm and the behavioral intention to use the e-learning system with partially supported.