Application of Learning Management System (LMS) during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Sustainable Acceptance Model of the Expansion Technology Approach

TLDR

The COVID‑19 pandemic forced university closures worldwide, prompting a shift to online learning, and the Learning Management System (LMS) offers a promising tool for sustaining student engagement, yet integrated LMS studies in industrialized contexts remain scarce. This study reviews recent LMS research during COVID‑19 and examines variables that predict higher‑education students’ LMS usage to enhance engagement. Using LMS usage data from an online survey of King Saud University students, the authors applied structural equation modeling and path analysis to test their proposed model. Results indicate that students’ desire to use LMS positively supports sustainable learning engagement, and that perceived closeness, peer references, and subjective well‑being strengthen perceived usefulness and ease of use, thereby increasing intention and actual LMS usage during the pandemic.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of universities and colleges throughout the world, with the hope that public health officials’ suggestion of social distancing would help flatten the sickness curve and reduce overall mortality from the outbreak. However, the Learning Management System (LMS) is the perfect approach for fostering the dedication of students to content in education like sustainability. Previous studies have seldom investigated an integrated approach in the context of LMS in industrialized nations. In addition, this paper aims to include a literature analysis of recent research conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in the area of LMS usage, as well as to investigate variables predicting the usage of LMS by higher education students during the COVID-19 pandemic for students’ engagement. On the basis of LMS usage data obtained from an online survey, structural equation modeling (SEM) and route analysis were utilized to verify the research model, a survey consisting of student LMS users King Saud University. The findings showed that the desire of students to use LMS had beneficial effects during the COVID-19 pandemic on learning as sustainability engagement. Also, student-perceived closeness, peer references and subjective well-being are favorably associated with the perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, this, in turn, influences students’ intentions to utilize, which, in turn, effects the usage of LMS for student engagement during COVID-19.