Students' Attitudes, Perceptions, and Expectations Toward Instructional Technology in Higher Education

Students' Attitudes, Perceptions, and Expectations Toward Instructional Technology in Higher Education
Author: Mamie L. Johnson
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2011-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1440176299

An examination of Everett M. Rogers’s (1995) Theory of the Diffusion of Innovations suggests that there is a positive relationship among students’ attitudes, perceptions, and expectations toward instructional technology in relation to the diffusion of innovations. Furthermore, the evidence shows that there is a very high correlation between acceptance of diffusion and students’ attitudes, acceptance of diffusion and students’ perceptions, and acceptance of diffusion and students’ expectations toward instructional technology. The relative advantage of an innovation can be influenced by social prestige, convenience, and satisfaction with an innovation.

Handbook of Research on Fostering Student Engagement With Instructional Technology in Higher Education

Handbook of Research on Fostering Student Engagement With Instructional Technology in Higher Education
Author: Alqurashi, Emtinan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2019-10-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799801217

Student engagement relies on the students and their willingness to participate in the learning process and can be enhanced through the application of various technologies within learning environments. However, strategies for implementing these technologies need research and development to be implemented effectively. The Handbook of Research on Fostering Student Engagement With Instructional Technology in Higher Education is a comprehensive academic publication that focuses on the engagement of learners with academics in higher education and especially how this engagement can be fostered with the integration of new technologies. Featuring an array of topics such as gamification, digital literacy, and social networking, this book is ideal for instructors, educators, administrators, curriculum developers, instructional designers, IT consultants, educational software developers, researchers, academicians, and students.

Sustainability Development through Green Economics

Sustainability Development through Green Economics
Author: Sanjay Taneja
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2024-09-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1837974268

This volume examines sustainable finance, green tourism, green marketing as a tributary towards sustainable development. The multidisciplinary chapters traverse the power of economic as well as financial policy, green investment, green insurance as well as green infrastructural development to ensure sustainable development.

Digitalization in Education: Developing Tools for Effective Learning and Personalisation of Education

Digitalization in Education: Developing Tools for Effective Learning and Personalisation of Education
Author: Manpreet Kaur Bagga
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2024-08-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 2832553206

Technology-driven trends in the modern society have transformed the ways humans think and communicate. The latest technological artefacts and devices have a profound impact on the forms of interaction between individuals and also significantly influence the process of co construction of knowledge. The COVID pandemic induced experience of remote teaching has significantly contributed to the widespread use of digital technologies in teaching - learning processes, faculty communications, research collaborations, conferences and workshops. The crisis also led to an understanding of the uncertainty of returning to conventional normal and paved way for a new normal ushered by the COVID pandemic. Such transformations create a need for Institutions to prioritize identification of perspective models of digitalization in education (Salmon, 2013). Teachers, teacher educators and policymakers need to collaborate for co-constructing the technology-assisted classroom that will gradually evolve from teaching supplements to pivotal support for creating a personal learning environment (Dabbagh et al., 2021). This article collection aims at examining teachers’ experience in implementation of computer technologies and exploring gaps and challenges in the current academic educational practice with regard to use of digital tools. Various elements of digital environment including online courses, e-resources, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence and robotics have become an integral component of learning and fostering students skills, practical teaching experience and effective professional training . It is imperative that aspects of e education are discussed at the global level in order to stimulate creation of personal learning environments, meet inclusive learning needs, support life-long education and identify relevant digital technologies for upgradation of pedagogical methods and teacher strategies in education.