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Tiêu đề

An exploratory study of adoption of software and hardware by faculty in the liberal arts and sciences

Tác giả

Yohon T.; Zimmerman D.

Năm xuất bản

2006

Source title

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.2190/8QGV-RYXQ-VY7Q-5RJT

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-44649141997&doi=10.2190%2f8QGV-RYXQ-VY7Q-5RJT&partnerID=40&md5=ee66a4f4b627ad39b9ded17c0dd6b4ba

Tóm tắt

Universities and colleges are investing millions of dollars in information technology infrastructure to support teaching, research, and service, and thousands of dollars annually in faculty training programs. And yet, many college graduates entering the workforce lack adequate technology skills. To ascertain the frequency of faculty adoption of information technology, we surveyed a random sample of faculty in the liberal arts and sciences departments in our university. Overall faculty members (n = 174) reported a low usage of information technology for teaching, though the rate of software adoption is higher than the rate of hardware adoption. While opportunities to learn technology are available, about two-thirds of the faculty members have not completed the available seminars and workshops on information technologies but prefer more informal ways of learning information technology, such as talking with other faculty members.

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