Abstract:
The main motivation behind this research is to investigate the adoption of Sakai
Learning Management System (LMS) at the University of Ghana.. The study used a
survey approach that involved questionnaires to solicit data from 131 Lecturers from
the colleges of Humanities, Education, Health Science and Basic and Applied
Sciences. For the past few months lecturers of the university of Ghana have been
exposed to Sakai LMS to complement the teaching effort of lecturers. The study, using
the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use Of Technology (UTAUT) attempts to
establish the factors that influence lecturers to adopt and use LMS, the opportunity
lecturers have to trial the LMS and the challenges facing lecturers in terms of using
the LMS. The findings showed that all four variable of the UTAUT, that is
performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating
conditions have a significant influence on lecturers behavioural intention to use Sakai
learning management system. Furthermore, findings showed that lack of time and the
workload in managing student online would be too much for the lecturers. Also, the
complexity associated with the use of Sakai LMS and poor, unreliable internet
connectivity posed a challenge for lecturers. The study, therefore, recommends that
since the factors used in the study were tested only in the University of Ghana. It
would be interesting to test these factors in other universities using learning
management system and the results compared to the findings of this study.