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Item Use of Social Media in Professional Education: A Cross-Sectional Study among Teachers in India and Sri Lanka.(8th International Conference on Business & Information ICBI – 2017, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Kurian, S.; De Alwis, A. C.; Padmasiri, M. K. D.; Ramanathan, H. N.; Chacko, P. S.Teachers are sophisticated users of social media. Although the faculty personal use of social media has shown ever-increasing trend the professional use of social media has lagged somewhat behind. A majority of faculty now uses social media in a professional context (including all aspects of their profession outside of teaching). The number of teachers who use social media in the classroom still does not represent a majority. They refer to different sites to match their varying personal, professional, and teaching needs. In general, they see considerable potential in the application of social media and technology to their teaching, but not without a number of serious barriers. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions of acceptance of social media in teaching and learning activities and the barriers that inhibit the minds of the management faculty in the use of it. The results indicate a positive inclination among teachers towards the use of social media for teaching-learning purposes with each of the indicator variables, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions measuring higher than the benchmark. The dominant factor which emerged as a barrier to the usage of social media by the teachers was the lack of integration of social media with the learning management system.Item Impact of Facilitating Conditions on System Acceptance Behavior: with Special Reference to Public Sector Projects in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Ranathunga, R.A.G.K.; de Silva. G.H.B.A.In spite of conducting proper systematic investigations, most of Sri Lankan public sector organizations migrate to computer based information systems from manual/semi-manual information systems. However, majority of the new vicissitudes in the new system would not be accepted by those who suggested the change after implementation. Furthermore, according to the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) (1991), the actual behaviour is determined by behavioral intention but then again, the acceptance behaviour of public sector employees cannot be explained completely. According to the TPB behavioral intention reinforced by perceived behavioral controls is having a positive impact on actual behaviour. However, TPB is not explaining completely why the positive intention to change the systems in the proposal stage is negatively affecting the implementation stage. Therefore, researcher wants to explain how facilitating conditions are moderating the relationship between intention to change and rejection behaviour. The qualitative deductive approach will be used in the study. The unit of analysis would be individuals. Moreover, the population of the study is recently system changed, public sector organization employees. Sample was drawn from the population based on snowballing sampling technique. The operationalization of the quantitative survey will be done based on existing literature while SEM will be used in data modeling. This study will provide insights for both executives and scholars in Sri Lanka. Executives require research based knowledge to overcome this dilemma while the scholars need the insights to explain the moderating behaviour of facilitating conditions.