Presentation of the paper “Enjoyment, Resistance to Change 
and mLearning Acceptance Among Pre-Service Teachers” 
 
José Carlos Sánchez-Prieto 
GRIAL Research Group, 
Research Institute of Educational Sciences, 
University of Salamanca 
josecarlos.sp@usal.es 
 
 
Abstract 
This is the presentation of the paper entitled “Enjoyment, Resistance to Change and 
mLearning Acceptance Among Pre-Service Teachers” in the Teacher Education 
research and ICT session of the TEEM 2016 International Conference held in 
Salamanca (Spain) in November 2-4, 2016. 
 
This communication presents the results derived from a study carried out in the 
University of Salamanca to analyze the intention to use mobile devices in the future 
teaching practice of the student from the Pre-primary Education Teacher Bachelor’s 
Degree from said university. In order to do so, we developed a TAM model expanded 
with the constructs of perceived enjoyment and resistance to change, both adapted to the 
abovementioned object of study. The sample was composed of 382 students from the 
University of Salamanca who participated willingly. The results reflect a good 
disposition towards the use of mobile technology in the future teaching practice of the 
students. The hypothesis testing barely shows any significant differences according to 
the course year of the students, although we can observe some differences according to 
the branch of the university that the students attend to. 
 
 
The presented paper may be cited as:  
 
Sánchez-Prieto, J. C., Olmos Migueláñez, S., & García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2016). 
Enjoyment, Resistance to Change and mLearning Acceptance Among Pre-
Service Teachers. In F. J. García-Peñalvo (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth 
International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing 
Multiculturality (TEEM’16) (Salamanca, Spain, November 2-4, 2016) (pp. 
691-697). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/3012430.3012594 
 
 
Link to the presentation 
http://es.slideshare.net/grialusal/enjoyment-resistance-to-change-and-mlearning-
acceptance-among-preservice-teachers  
 
Keywords 
TAM; pre-primary; mLearning; pre-service; enjoyment; resistance to change. 
 
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