Technology Acceptance in the Use of Social Networks by Teachers and Employees of Education Offices in Ahwaz

ABSTRACT

Educational systems and stakeholders embark upon changes and adaptation with changes on the basis of social and historical developments. One of the influential factors in current world is emerging technologies like social networks that can affect educational systems and stakeholders. This research deal with studying the acceptance of social networks by those involved in the educational system of Ahwaz. For this purpose, a sample of 523 people was selected by random sampling from among teachers and administrative employees and analyzed by a 53-question questionnaire with Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.88 based on the TAM2 model and SEM method. The results showed that teachers did not have high acceptance for using social networks, but administrative employees welcomed this phenomenon.