Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan

Al-Ahliyya Amman University · Department of Business Technology

In higher education learning, e-learning systems have become renowned tools worldwide. The evident importance of e-learning in higher education has resulted in a prenominal increase in the number of e-learning systems delivering various forms of services, especially when traditional education (face-to-face) was suddenly forced to move online due to...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are emerging as the new trend for modern higher education institutions. Student acceptance is viewed as the key determinant for the success of MOOCs. This study intends to examine factors influencing higher education students’ behavioral intention to adopt MOOCs. Thus, this study proposes the use of a modified Te...

Trust is viewed as a crucial factor in social commerce due to the prominent role and significant amount of peer-generated contents. The current study aims to investigate the relationship between trust in social commerce and customers’ purchase intentions by providing a mechanism to describe this relationship. Thus, a proposed model is developed bas...

p class="3">Mobile devices are increasingly coming to penetrate people's daily lives. Mobile learning (m-learning) is viewed as key to the coming era of electronic learning (e-learning). In the meantime, the use of mobile devices for learning has made a significant contribution to delivering education among higher education students worldwide. Howe...

Even though there is significant growth in online purchasing platforms globally, interaction with such platforms is not very popular in less developed countries (LDCs) like Yemen and needs further investigation. Thus, this empirical research aims to investigate the determinants of Yemeni consumers’ interaction intention to purchase online (IIPO) as...

In order to eliminate discrepancies between the literature on the use of digital media for education and its effects on students’ academic achievement in higher education institutions, this article aims to develop a model that would identify essential aspects that are predicted to continue to play a large role in TTF and CT for learning, which coul...

Metaverse, which combines a number of information technologies, is the Internet of the future. A media for immersive learning, metaverse could set future educational trends and lead to significant reform in education. Although the metaverse has the potential to improve the effectiveness of online learning experiences, metaverse-based educational im...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants that likely influence the intention of using digital payment systems such as the Jordan Mobile Payment (JoMoPay) system among public sector employees in Jordan. To achieve the purpose of the current study, the authors developed a new research model based on the extended unified th...

This study aims to investigate the main technological and socio-environmental factors influencing the adoption intentions with regard to AI-based technologies at the organizational level. A conceptual model based on innovation diffusion theory (DOI) and the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework is proposed and tested empirically using...

The purpose of this research is to highlight the factors influencing the adoption of MOOCs in the Malaysian context. This qualitative study was designed using focus group discussions (FGs) with fifty postgraduate students from two Malaysian Universities. The thematic analysis revealed two major themes, opportunities, and challenges. The findings re...

Social commerce, which combines the transactional side of e-commerce with social interactions, has grown in popularity throughout the last years. Despite the fact that the issue of uncertainty in e-commerce has been extensively discussed, little is known about the mechanisms that customers of social commerce employ to lessen their perceptions of un...

A.; Muhaimin, M.; Mailizar, M.; Wijaya, T.T.; Al-Adwan, A.S. Abstract: This study aimed to evaluate pharmacy students' perceptions regarding the correlations among the quality of faculty members, institutional resources, an integrated-based curriculum of pharmaceutical dosage forms (ICPDF), and learning outcome attainment. The current study partici...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine how employee perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) can enhance creative performance in an organization both directly and indirectly through job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior. This will allow organizations to consider the different factors influencing creative per...

This article reviews the recent literature using exploratory research methods on the role of social media influencers in influencing consumers. The research aims to explore the role of social media influencers in influencing consumer behavior and to revisit the two-step flow of communication model in the context of social media. The research also a...

The current study examined factors affecting higher education students’ use of a mobile-based Learning Management System (m-LMS) for distance education during the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19). A survey instrument based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was established and validated. The primar...

Aim/Purpose: Social commerce is an emergent topic widely used for product and service sourcing. It helps companies to have frequent interaction with their customers and strive to achieve a competitive advantage. Yet there is only little empirical evidence focusing on social commerce and its adoption in SMEs to date. This study investigates the key...

Smart government is viewed as the highest modernization stage of public agencies. Governments seek to employ disruptive technologies to substantially transform government-citizen relationships, enhance citizens’ experiences, transform public decision making, emphasize citizen engagement in the democratic decision-making process, provide more agile...

The main purpose of the current research was to explore the relationships between beliefs/knowledge and technology integration (TI) during teaching practice (i.e., placement or practicum) among Indonesian pre-service teachers. Five core variables of the theory of planned behavior or TPB (subjective norms, attitudes, perceived behavioral control, be...

Currently, the world faces unprecedented challenges due to COVID-19, particularly concerning individuals’ health and livelihood and organizations and industrial performance. Indeed, the pandemic has caused rapid intensifying socio-economic effects. For instance, organizations are shifting from traditional working patterns toward telecommuting. By a...

This study evaluated the relationships among variables in electronic customer relationship management (e-CRM) success. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of technological readiness, privacy, COVID-19, customer pressure, trust, level of service quality, and customer satisfaction. Quantitative research methods were applied in examinin...

Despite the fact that online purchase intention has been widely investigated, little is known about the e-retailer-based signals used to reduce online customers’ uncertainty perception in high-uncertainty-avoidance (UA) societies. Thus, based on signaling and uncertainty literature, this study investigates return policy leniency (RPL), cash on deli...

This study proposes and empirically tests a contextualized model for investigating repurchase intentions of e-commerce consumers as well as their word-of-mouth (WOM) intentions in high uncertainty avoidance cultures and on a synthesis of the S–O-R paradigm and Information Processing Theory (IPT). Data for the study were collected from 560 Jordanian...

Electronic government (E-government) systems are becoming an integral component of government service delivery systems. Because of the rapid growth of Internet and Information System (IS) technologies in Malaysia, E-government systems are becoming more and more necessary. This study examined user attitudes, usage intensions, and satisfaction with E...

Aim: The Covid-19 pandemic situation has affected all sectors of our society that have been in direct or indirect contact with humans. The virtual world, which did not concern many people until the onset of the pandemic, began to be a major part of the solutions to everyday situations in life. Modern technologies thus began to play a major role in...

Mobile-learning (M-learning) apps have grown in popularity and demand in recent years and have become a typical occurrence in modern educational systems, particularly with the deployment of M-learning initiatives. The key objective of this study was to reveal the key factors that impact university students’ behavioural intention and actual use of m...

The rapid expansion of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has transformed learners into digital learners, requiring teachers to integrate technology into their pedagogical approaches, where teachers’ attitudes, technological knowledge, and skills play a significant role in its effective integration. From this perspective, the cur...

his study seeks to investigate the factors that influence online students’ contin�ued usage intention toward e-learning systems by presenting an extended model that is based on the Delone and McLean (2003) IS success model (D&M ISS model).

The advent of Internet heralded the rise of scalable educational technology dubbed as massive open online course (MOOC). Easy to use, access, economical as well as flexible, provide students lot of freedom and the advantage of self-paced learning. Despite all these merits, MOOC adoption is low in the higher educational institutions (HEIs) of India....

Cloud computing technology has proved to be an important technological solution, especially for small and medium- sized businesses (SMEs), by providing many opportunities for companies to enhance their operations, reduce cost, improve scalability and flexibility, and make more efficient use of technology. Despite its benefits, most SMEs are still h...

The key objective of this study was to reveal the key factors that impact university students’ continued usage intentions with respect to Learning Management Systems (LMSs). Given the context-dependent nature of e-learning, the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model was applied and extended with constructs principally rela...

Purpose of the Study The significance of creativity and performance in the workplace has been illustrated on various occasions. This study aims to find out if there is a link between transformative leadership, organizational innovation, psychological issues such as hindrance and challenge stressors, and employee creativity and employee performance....

Quality assurance and accreditation are essential for universities to survive in a global market that values researchers. The current article focuses on determining the impact of institutional determinants on quality assurance and certification in Jordanian and Malaysian institutions. The recent article utilises primary data acquired via survey que...

The present paper aims at investigating the relationship between students’ attitudes toward online homework use and mathematics anxiety among secondary school students. In this study, a model has been proposed by integrating the technology acceptance model (TAM) with mathematics anxiety theory. Three hundred and forty-five secondary school students...

The purpose of this study is to explore the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) perceived by the learners regarding the acceptance of MOOCs in Malaysian universities. Quantitative research method was used and the descriptive data related to satisfaction, perceived service quality, and attitude toward the use of MOOCs were colle...

In recent years, universities have put enormous efforts to promote the use of online learning among students and lecturers. Despite this, little is known about the intention of students to use online learning. The objective of this research is to study the continuance intention of online learning in the post-COVID-19 period in higher education. The...

Smart government aims to provide intelligent and agile personalized public services to government stakeholders. Over the past few years, governments seek to employ innovative technologies, such as blockchain, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, robotics process automation, and machine learning (ML), t...

The Covid-19 pandemic has spread across the globe, causing educational institutions to shut down. As a result, classes have been held online. This study investigated the impact of online learning on student performance by comparing the effect in Jordan and the UK. Both countries have been reported to have high technological competency, but are know...

Holistic development is fostered when the education system allows learners to equip themselves with moral values, which is crucial in prospering a society. The current situation of moral disintegration among youth raises the importance of consolidation of moral values in education, and teachers play an important role in cultivating moral values amo...

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly shifted education from traditional to an online version, which was an emergent state for teachers and students. The substantive situation thus raises the importance of technology integration in education, and teachers are required to update their competencies, respectively. In this regard, the study assessed onli...

Mobile learning (M-learning) has become an important instructional technology component in higher education. The goal of this research is to determine how Malaysian university students use M-learning in higher education. The technology acceptance model (TAM) concept was used to construct a theoretical model of M-learning acceptability. In theory, f...

Social media is considered a dominant platform for ensuring business success and survival, especially in the case of small and medium enterprises businesses (SMEs). It offers many benefits for businesses in terms of enhancing customer relations, increasing profit, reducing cost, and allowing flexibility. During the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, social...

Citation: Sana, H.A.; Alkhalaf, S.; Zulfiqar, S.; Al-Rahmi, W.M.; Al-Adwan, A.S.; AlSoud, A.R.

Social entrepreneurship has recently become a much-desired area of research for academia, practices, and policymaking. Natural or cognitive personal thoughtfulness like loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion trigger individual intentions towards the social entrepreneurial venture. In this process of individual social entrepreneurial intent...

MOOC is an innovative method in modern education, particularly important for sharing of excellent educational resources worldwide. To realize the full potential of MOOC, we need to understand the factors influencing MOOC success. In this study a theoretical framework has been proposed by integrating a self-regulated learning theory and DeLone and M...

Nowadays, networks use many different paths to exchange data. However, our research will construct a reliable path in the networks among a huge number of nodes for use in tele-surgery using medical applications such as healthcare tracking applications, including tele-surgery which lead to optimizing medical quality of service (m-QoS) during the COV...

Literature emphasized the importance of quality antecedents on the successful implementation of MOOCs. However, rare studies are available on how to examine the quality antecedents in the MOOC context. Thus, the objective of this study is to assess the impact of quality antecedents on satisfaction toward MOOC. This study is mainly quantitative, ado...

This study aims to extend the argument about the association between HRM and Total Quality Management (TQM) in insurance companies in Jordan. It is argued that the consideration of TQM can be supported in terms of configuration as an effect of Human Resource Management (HRM) in the presence or absence of other HRM practices. Data for this study wer...

This article establishes an e-government adoption structure to survey the mediating roles of perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU), & trust, as well as the moderating role of transparency, in citizens' adoption of e-government services in the Jordanian public sector institutes. A quantitative approach using the questionnaire metho...

Background and Purpose: Organisational politics can have a substantial negative effect on employees’ performance, however many organisations still do not pay attention to this organisational behaviour. In our study, we aim to examine the relationship between organisational culture and organisational citizenship behaviour through how employees perce...

Aim/Purpose The main objective of this study is to explore students' beliefs with regard to social media use (SMU) in higher education and the consequences of such use on the perception of their academic performance. Additionally, the study aims to determine the major influential factors with regard to SMU in student learning settings as a means of...

Drawing upon the Social Learning theory, this article investigates the relationship between work-based learning climate and customer perception about service quality using employee job satisfaction. Data were collected from Jordan’s nine five-star hotels. A structured questionnaire was provided to 400 employees. This measured the work-based learnin...

This study examines the factors that influence decision-makers to adopt e-marketing in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Jordan. There is currently no comprehensive conceptual framework that explains e-marketing adoption in SMEs. Therefore, this study develops a conceptual framework based on the diffusion of innovation (DOI) and technol...

my https://orcid.org/0000000309962425 ─Abstract─ The main reason to conduct this study was to examine the role of social support, interdependent self-Construal and E-WOM on subjective norms and repurchase intention among university students. This study was designed to gather data from university students studying in public sector universities of Ku...

Mobile applications (mobile Apps) have changed the ecosystem of the business world. The rapid progression in the market for smart devices and mobile Apps has brought about a revolution with regard to the mobile Apps' economy. The major revenue stream of this economy is the sale of mobile Apps, with such sales being expected to increase dramatically...

The pandemic COVID-19 proved as a great challenge for today world. The "Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" timely control it due it's aggressive actions against pandemic COVID-19, in contrast with other "MENA" countries. Where the government encouraged domestic tourism to reduce the burden on this sector. The purpose of this study is to lay emphasis on t...

Aim/Purpose The main objective of this study is to explore students' beliefs with regard to social media use (SMU) in higher education and the consequences of such use on the perception of their academic performance. Additionally, the study aims to determine the major influential factors with regard to SMU in student learning settings as a means of...

Aim/Purpose The current study has been carried out to reveal students' readiness to utilize MOOCs at higher learning institutions in Jordan. Background Higher education institutions around the globe are shifting rapidly to reach learners worldwide by providing open education. In accordance with this universal effort , Jordan is committed to offerin...

This study examines the factors that influence decision-makers to adopt e-marketing in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Jordan. There is currently no comprehensive conceptual framework that explains e-marketing adoption in SMEs. Therefore, this study develops a conceptual framework based on the diffusion of innovation (DOI) and technol...

Various scholars have empirically investigated customer beliefs regarding satisfaction, loyalty and trust in the context of B2C e-commerce in several countries. However, the number of investigations into such important aspects of e-commerce in developing Arab countries, such as Jordan, is limited. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to explore...

Various scholars have empirically investigated customer beliefs regarding satisfaction, loyalty and trust in the context of B2C e-commerce in several countries. However, the number of investigations into such important aspects of e-commerce in developing Arab countries, such as Jordan, is limited. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to explore...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore different ways through which Jordanian small businesses can raise their respective total sales by the use of local e-market. Some of the components of the conceptual framework include after-sale services, e-marketing budget, tools for online marketing, e-promotions aimed at improving marketing performance and use...

The Customer trust, satisfaction and loyalty with regard to the provision of e-commerce services is expected to be critical factors for the assessment of the success of online businesses. Service quality and high-quality product settings are closely linked to these factors. However, despite the rapid advancement of e-commerce applications, especial...

This study aims to identify the main factors influencing consumers’ adoption of social commerce (s-commerce). Based on the socio-technical theory, the study suggests a research model that investigates the key social and technical factors driving consumers’ decision to purchase from social commerce websites. In addition, the research model explores...

Trust is viewed as a crucial factor in social commerce due to the prominent role and significant amount of peer-generated contents. The current study aims to investigate the relationship between trust in social commerce and customers' purchase intentions by providing a mechanism to describe this relationship. Thus, a proposed model is developed bas...

This article aims at determining the level of digital marketing adoption and investigating the essential requirement of digital marking adoption among Jordanian SMEs companies. A mix method approach was adopted to achieve the objectives of the study, consisted of an online survey questionnaire followed by semi-structured interviews. Two hundred sev...

Due to the country’s lack of natural resources and its dependence on human resources, Jordanian universities have started to implement quality assurance system aiming to im- prove effectiveness and efficiency of the higher educational system. This paper presents the results of a research that aims to identify the main issues and challenges facing t...

Mobile computing and the wireless web are likely to become the next major business models following the era of electronic commerce. In particular, rapid growth and the advancement in mobile technologies indicate that mobile commerce (m-commerce) will be the dominant business model in the future. In developing countries, services in mobile commerce...

Nowadays, pharmaceutical companies are considered one of the main pillars of the economic development of any country. The number of pharmaceutical companies has increased rapidly in the last decade in Jordan and many have adopted new managerial practices to improve their efficiency by boosting employees' performance. Accordingly, this paper built a...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore different ways through which Jordanian small businesses can raise their respective total sales by the use of local e-market. Some of the components of the conceptual framework include after-sale services, e-marketing budget, tools for online marketing, e-promotions aimed at improving marketing performance and use...

The absence of social aspects and human presence is conceived as being one of the key drawbacks that impede the future development of e-commerce. The development of social commerce may help overcome this weakness. Social commerce is viewed as a subset of e-commerce that integrates both social and commercial activities by utilising social technologi...

The rapid expansion in users of mobile devices, particularly among university students, makes mobile learning (m-learning) the modern style of learning for the new millennium. Thus, it is important to identify and explore the factors that may influence students' intention to use m-learning. In Jordan, research on mobile learning adoption is still v...

The rapid expansion in users of mobile devices, particularly among university students, makes mobile learning (m-learning) the modern style of learning for the new millennium. Thus, it is important to identify and explore the factors that may influence students' intention to use m-learning. In Jordan, research on mobile learning adoption is still v...

As qualitative methods become increasingly popular in the research of information systems (IS), the analysis of resultant data becomes problematic. The primary aim of this paper is to contribute to the literature of qualitative research methodology in the area of information technology adoption. This study aims to outline a potentially powerful com...

Increasing the influence of technology to include all aspects of our life, including higher education institutions, places developing countries under pressure to adopt technology in their education. However, adopting e-learning results in several challenges and barriers that must be urgently addressed by the administration of higher education insti...

The response of health professionals to the use of health information technology (HIT) can partly explain the success or failure of any HIT adoption and/or its application. The present study applies a modified version of the revised technology acceptance model (TAM) to examine EHR acceptance and utilisation by physicians in Jordan. The paper presen...