The Effectiveness of D2L System: An Evaluation of Teaching-Learning Process in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

High quality education could be achieved through an e-learning system as it increases the educational information accessibility, service availability and accuracy when compared to a conventional face-to-face teaching-learning approach. However, user acceptance is one of the key essentials for adoption and success of e-learning system. Many studies revealed that use of D2L application is one of the best tool in the adoption of teaching and learning methodologies and the effectiveness of this application has gained a demand within the last few years. This paper investigates the feasibility of applying UTAUT model on Desire2Learn (D2L) e-learning system in KSA. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of D2L (elearning) system based on students acceptance. Questionaire method was employed to accomplish this study. Based on the (UTAUT) model the impact of trust on the adoption of e-learning systems’ services from students’ perception was studied. Feedback was collected from 213 students to carry out the study. The results of this study indicates that the services offered by D2L System has significant weightage on teaching-learning process in Saudi Arabia from the student perspective. Keywords—e-learning; Desire2Learn (D2L); Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)