Students' Acceptance of and Satisfaction with Education on Creative Children's Stories Using a Web Novel Platform

This study aims to investigate how transformation education from analog to digital, which documents creative children's stories in analog formats into digital web and uploads them on a platform, is accepted by students and satisfies them emotionally. The study also sets out to examine how their acceptance and satisfaction react to the use of digital tools in the future. The findings are summarized as follows: first, students gave a high rating to the use value(4/5) of a web novel platform in the aspect of “utility”; second, they showed a high level of psychological satisfaction(3.9/5) with a web novel platform in the aspect of “satisfaction”; third, the study examined relations between “utility” and “intention for future use” and between “satisfaction” and “intention for future use” and found significant relations between “utility” and “intention for use” and no significant relations between “satisfaction” and “intention for use.” Students recognized the utility of a platform, thus showing their willingness to keep using a platform in the future. However, they had no willingness to keep using a platform in the future for their satisfaction with using one; and finally, there was a need to mitigate students' psychological resistance to a platform and web so that they would continue to accept the advantages of a platform and web in the activity of uploading their creative children's stories on a platform. Resistance includes “rejection to making public their stories,” “fear for negative comments,” and “burden with writing perfect stories to make public them.” All of such resistance is psychological, which raises a new fact that these psychological resistance factors should be alleviated for the continuous use of a platform and web in education on creative children's stories.