Technology acceptance of online instruction for vocational instructors in new normal education

Abstract

This research aimed to: develop a model for vocational instructors’ acceptance of online instruction after they had arrangeonline instruction for one year; and investigate the consistency of this model using the empirical evidence gained from 1,81vocational instructors from five regions in Thailand: the Northern Region, the Northeastern Region, the Central Region, thEastern Region and Bangkok, and the Southern Region. The research instrument used to collect the data was a questionnairon the vocational instructors’ acceptance of online instruction. The data were analysed using construct validity and thconsistency of the causal relationship model. The research findings revealed that social distancing during the COVID-1pandemic resulted in the vocational instructors’ adjusted attitudes towards online instruction for the better. This adjustmendirectly affected some changes in the instructors’ behaviour in physical classroom instruction to online instruction in thfollowing period.