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Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 10Male and Female Differences in the Use of Social Media for Learning Purposes(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018) Akman, Ibrahim; Turhan, CigdemThis study aims to explore the differences between male and female users' behaviour with regard to acceptance of social media for learning in higher educational institutions. For this purpose, a survey was conducted and the least square regression analysis approach was utilised to investigate the relationships among the constructs in the research model for male and female users from a general and ethical perspective, focusing on the reliability, performance and awareness factors. The findings from the analysis reveal that a significant degree of diversity is present in the factors represented by general reliability', ethical reliability', ethical performance', ethical awareness' and ethical intention'.Article Citation - WoS: 27Citation - Scopus: 43User Acceptance of Social Learning Systems in Higher Education: an Application of the Extended Technology Acceptance Model(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017) Akman, Ibrahim; Turhan, CigdemThis study aims to explore the users' behaviour and acceptance of social media for learning in higher educational institutions with the help of the extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). TAM has been extended to investigate how ethical and security awareness of users affect the actual usage of social learning applications. For this purpose, a survey was conducted and the Structural Equation Model approach was utilised to investigate the direct and indirect causal relationships among the constructs in the research model. Interestingly, the findings from the analysis reveal that, except ease of use', TAM's core and external constructs are significant predictors of actual behaviour towards using social media for learning.
