Abstract:
The paper presents to analyse behavioural intention of undergraduates to use
cloud computing services for academic purposes at South Eastern University of Sri
Lanka. This study was used Venkatesh et al.’s (2003) unified theory of acceptance and
use of technology (UTAUT) which analysed that the constructs of UTAUT including
performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy (EE), social influences (SI), and
facilitating conditions (FC), are strong predictors to, or have positively influence on
behavioural intention to use cloud computing services for academic purposes among
the undergraduate students. However, moderators of UTAUT model are excluded for
this study. The UTAUT constructs for this study are used and analysed using structural
equation modelling (SEM) through partial least squares path modelling (PLS-SEM).
Survey questionnaire through Google Forms shareable link was distributed to 394
participants. 23 responses out of 394 responses are rejected because of insufficient
answers. SmartPLS 3 software was used for analysing the data. The path coefficient
(β) of PE, EE, SI, and FC are 0.27, 0.279, 0.181, and 0.196 respectively. Therefore,
findings of this study concluded that there are significant positive effects of the
constructs (PE, EE, SI and FC) on behavioural intention to use cloud computing
services among undergraduate students at South Eastern University of Sri Lanka.
