ERIC Number: EJ1058112
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Publication Date: 2015
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Meeting the Challenge of Providing Flexible Learning Opportunities: Considerations for Technology Adoption amongst Academic Staff (Relever le défi de fournir des occasions d'apprentissage flexibles: considérations pour l'adoption de la technologie par le personnel universitaire)
Mirriahi, Negin; Vaid, Bhuvinder S.; Burns, David P.
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, v41 n1 Win 2015
This paper reports on a subset of findings from a larger study investigating resistance from academic staff to the integration of technology with on-campus foreign language teaching at one North American higher education institution. The study revealed that the factors influencing technology adoption paralleled Davis' Technology Acceptance Model's tenets of perceived usefulness and ease of use. Further, this study supports Lai and Savage's (2013) assertion of a lack of attention to the pedagogical affordances of technology when adoption decisions are made by instructors, thus we highlight the need for higher education leaders to determine strategies promoting awareness of the benefits technology-enabled teaching and learning can bring to advance educationally-rich flexible learning opportunities.
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Semi Structured Interviews, Second Language Instruction, Integrated Learning Systems, Language Teachers, Coding, Foreign Countries
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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