Faculty Attitudes and Factors affecting Faculty Attitudes toward Adoption of Digital Technologies
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Kevin Dougherty, Durham CollegeSchool of Business, IT & Management, Canada
EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ISBN 978-1-939797-16-2 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC
Abstract
This paper reports on some of the findings of a study of faculty at four community colleges in Ontario. A modified decomposed theory of planned behaviour (DTPB) was implemented as a theoretical framework and data collection was undertaken using a mixed-method approach in an effort to fully realize and categorize the factors necessary in a faculty decision to adopt digital technologies into their teaching practice. Faculty attitudes toward adoption of digital and Web technologies vary greatly in large part due to a number of motivating factors that were revealed through the study. This paper provides some understanding of college faculty attitudes toward the adoption of digital and Web technologies into their teaching and learning practices as well as those factors that may influence faculty attitudes toward adoption of those technologies into their practices.
Citation
Dougherty, K. (2015). Faculty Attitudes and Factors affecting Faculty Attitudes toward Adoption of Digital Technologies. In S. Carliner, C. Fulford & N. Ostashewski (Eds.), Proceedings of EdMedia 2015--World Conference on Educational Media and Technology (pp. 1403-1413). Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 28, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/151417/.
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