The possibility of adoption of hybrid cloud computing in Iraqi universities: An analytical study using technology acceptance model

Abstract

The universities including the Iraqi ones are often resort to the adoption of new and modern technologies in order to improve and develop their educational operations and systems to make it more able to confront the challenges of development in its communities. Among the most important of these technologies is Hybrid Cloud Computing (HCC) that offers many usefulness and benefits to support the work of these universities. Therefore, our paper aims to provide a proposal hypothetical model that depends on the theory of technological acceptance. This proposal model has been used diagnosing the attitudes and intentions of Iraqi universities in the framework of HCC adoption, which in turn develops the operations and systems of teaching and learning within these universities and beyond. For that, we have designed an electronic questionnaire containing (32) indicators in the context of the nine fundamental variables at proposed model in order to collect the target data and information from (66) governmental and private universities. Additionally, we have analyzed these data and information in the light of using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) that helped us to prove the accuracy of our approved indicators as well as to find strength and direction of the direct and indirect effects that arising from the underlying relationships in the proposed model. Finally, the paper has reached several conclusions, the most important of which is the private Iraqi universities give great attention to the perceived usefulness of HCC has been order to build a positive attitude towards it (because these universities depends essentially on the technological resources of suppliers). While, the governmental universities confirm that the perceived ease of using HCC was the foundation of positive attitude towards it (because these universities relies basically on adapting their technological resources to build a distinct computing). The originality of paper lies on providing a road map describe the know-how of studying the factors that affect in using HCC at Iraqi universities. And thus, we provide a vision and perception to the management of these universities about what can be done in the future to develop the operations and systems of teaching and learning that based on cloud computing.Keywords: Cloud Computing, Hybrid Cloud Computing, HCC's Features and Services, Technology Acceptance Model, Structural Equation Modeling, Iraqi Universities.