TY - GEN
T1 - Information technology diffusion in academic teaching
T2 - An institutional perspective
AU - Naveh, Gali
AU - Tubin, Dorit
AU - Pliskin, Nava
PY - 2008/10/6
Y1 - 2008/10/6
N2 - Even though diffusion of information and communication technology (ICT) in academic teaching has been fast, the expected benefits in pedagogy and structure have yet to materialize. Rogers' diffusion theory, which focuses on adoption and rejection of innovation, can explain the proliferation of ICT usage in academia, but the lack of ICT-based pedagogical and structural changes are beyond the scope of diffusion theory. The objective of this paper is to broaden the theoretical base for explaining the state of ICT in academia via the alternative conceptual lens of institutional theory, which focuses on the relationship between the organization and its environment. With the institutional theory perspective in mind, we suggest that further pedagogical and structural changes in academic courses should not be expected as a result of ICT implementation in academic teaching.
AB - Even though diffusion of information and communication technology (ICT) in academic teaching has been fast, the expected benefits in pedagogy and structure have yet to materialize. Rogers' diffusion theory, which focuses on adoption and rejection of innovation, can explain the proliferation of ICT usage in academia, but the lack of ICT-based pedagogical and structural changes are beyond the scope of diffusion theory. The objective of this paper is to broaden the theoretical base for explaining the state of ICT in academia via the alternative conceptual lens of institutional theory, which focuses on the relationship between the organization and its environment. With the institutional theory perspective in mind, we suggest that further pedagogical and structural changes in academic courses should not be expected as a result of ICT implementation in academic teaching.
KW - Academic teaching
KW - ICT diffusion
KW - Institutional theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=52949102606&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-87503-3_35
DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-87503-3_35
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52949102606
SN - 9780387875026
T3 - IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
SP - 563
EP - 567
BT - Open IT-Based Innovation
A2 - Leon, Gonzalo
A2 - Bernardos, Ana
A2 - Casar, Jose
A2 - Kautz, Karlheinz
A2 - DeGross, Janice
ER -