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Titel:

“We Don’t Need No Education”-al Technology – Teachers’ Implicit Attitudes in the Use of Learning Management Systems

AutorInnen:

Lukas Florian Bossler
Julia Krönung
Thomas Langer
Lukas Florian Bossler

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Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2025), 14-17 December, Nashville, USA, 2025.

Abstract:

The education sector in many countries is experiencing a push towards greater digitalization, driven by potential benefits such as increased efficiency, flexibility, and participation. To reap these benefits, the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS), systems that allow the planning and documentation of lectures, study material distribution, and assignment management, is increasingly mandated by educational authorities. In an experimental approach, we conduct an Implicit Association Test with 115 teachers in the state of Hesse, Germany, to investigate how implicit attitudes, spontaneous and affective evaluations that bypass deliberate thinking, toward LMS influence how intensively LMS are used. We find that implicit attitudes drive usage behavior both directly and by serving as the basis for teachers’ conscious evaluations. Our study shows that simply mandating the use of LMS does not achieve the proposed benefits of LMS, highlighting the need to design a way that fosters positive associations among teachers.

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