Technology Integration, Adoption, Implementation, and Innovation

Diffusion of Innovations

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Diffusion of Innovations Roger Clarke's Primer on DOI.
  Basic concepts, cases, activitites, instruments.
  Conceptual model (in flowchart form) of DOI process.
  Diffusion of Innovations An overview of the origin of the theory and specific details
  DOI bilbiography from NASA
  Technology Adoption and Diffusion An overview by V.H. Carr Jr. explains the field in general and Roger's theory specifically.
articles - HE
Distance Education Leadership in Higher Education Institutions: Explored Within Theoretical Frameworks of Organizational Change and Diffusion of Innovations Theory
  Enhancing science-based innovations through knowledge mobility between higher education and educational practice
  Integrating Technology into Instruction in Higher Education
  Educational Reform as Innovation Diffusion: Development of a Theory and Test of a Model Using Continuing Professional Development and Instructional Technology
  Enabling and Sustaining Educational Innovation
  A collection of DOI studies
Models of Adoption Surviving Change: A Survey of Educational Change Models.An ERIC article that gives a general overview
  ACOT Teacher's Beliefs and Practices. Apple Classrooms Of Tomorrow research provides long-term analysis of the adoption process, see the Teacher Beliefs and Practices PDF files.
  Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM): A Model for Change in Individuals Typically used in staff development this model should be considered when planning for technology adoption. Stages of Concern" from the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM)This model was created to explain the lack of teacher buy-in and to propose ways of using this model to monitor and increase implementation of educational innovations.
  Levels of Use of Technology Compares LoTi to CBAM.
  LoTi (Level of Technology Implementation) This scale is an effort to accurately measure authentic classroom technology use. This scale focuses on the use of technology as an interactive learning medium because this particular component has the greatest and lasting impact on classroom pedagogy and is the most difficult to implement and assess.
Integrated Technology Adoption and Diffusion Model (Sherry, Billig, Tavalin, and Gibson) describes a cyclic process in which teachers evolve from learners (teacher-trainees) to adopters of educational technology, to co-learners/co-explorers with their students in the classroom and, finally, to a reaffirmation/rejection decision.
Meeting Individual Teacher Needs: The Teacher Technology Adoption Process The CEO Forum report on teacher adoption. Also see Teacher Preparation Star Chart which identifies stages of adoption for institutions and individuals in higher ed.
  Towards a Holistic Model for the Diffusion of Educational Technologies: An Integrative Review of Educational Innovation Studies by K.E. Dooley describes and analyzed design of models and proposes a diffusion model based on literature reviewed.
Another Point of View A Critique of How Technology Adoption Models Get Used by Wilson, Dobrovolny, and Lowry
 last updated 3.8.05

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