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Abstract | ||
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Institutions of higher education are regarded as breeding grounds for innovation. Oftentimes, though, continuous innovation leaves little time for the innovation or technology to permeate through the institution. Furthermore, continuous research and development of new systems, services, and technologies without regard for implementation can cost the institution much in terms of frustration, effort, and money. Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations model holds that there is a normal curve of adopters of technologies that can be divided into five groups: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Information technology units can benefit immensely by reviewing the diffusion of innovations model and adopting practices that contribute to the diffusion or permeation of an innovation through the university community, particularly the academic community. An extension of Rogers' model holds that an instructor must teach a course at least four times before a technology becomes permanently embedded in the curriculum. Therefore, a major variable affecting the adoption rate is time. Technology units can use certain techniques to hasten the adoption of technology. Those techniques include: focused faculty development workshops, brown bag luncheons, disseminating information to academic department heads and chairs, continuous and repeated communication using multiple formats, and, of course, offering incentives to faculty to use and adopt innovative technologies. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2008 | 10.1145/1449956.1450043 | SIGUCCS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
adoption rate,academic department head,innovations model,technology unit,academic community,information technology unit,continuous research,innovative technology,continuous innovation,early adopter,new technologies,information technology | Faculty development,Computer science,Information technology,Academic department,Diffusion of innovations,Knowledge management,Technological change,Emerging technologies,Higher education,Marketing,Early adopter | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 1 |
Authors | ||
1 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Michael White | 1 | 51 | 8.25 |