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Lee, Ming-Chi – Computers & Education, 2010
Although e-learning has been prompted to various education levels, the intention to continue using such systems is still very low, and the acceptance-discontinuance anomaly phenomenon (i.e., users discontinue using e-learning after initially accepting it) is a common occurrence. This paper synthesizes the expectation-confirmation model (ECM), the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Expectation, Continuing Education, Intention
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Hall, Gene E. – Educational Horizons, 1979
The concept of Stages of Concern about the Innovation (SoC) deals with the psychological orientation of both users and nonusers toward an innovation. This article describes the SoC concept and highlights illustrative research findings. Interventions hypothesized as potentially appropriate and implications for the change process are discussed.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Conceptual Schemes
Loucks, Susan F. – 1983
The paper presents a framework intended to help in the adoption of new early childhood special education model programs. The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) is explained to describe how individuals undergo the change process. The diagnostic component of CBAM is described in terms of three dimensions: (1) stages of concern (the feelings of…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Demonstration Programs, Diffusion (Communication)
Francq, Carole – 1984
The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM), which was developed over the past 25 years through the Research and Development Center at the University of Texas at Austin, identifies seven stages of concern involved in implementing an innovation: awareness, information, personal concerns, management concerns, consequences, collaboration, and refocusing…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Innovation
Educational Research Service, Arlington, VA. – 1998
Comprehensive school improvement is based on reorganizing and revitalizing the entire school rather than focusing on specific student populations or programs. An overview of 17 schoolwide reform programs is provided in this book. The purpose of the text is to give education leaders basic information about some of the best-known externally…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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Kimpson, Richard D. – Planning and Changing, 1982
Suggests procedures for analyzing educational goals prior to adoption, recommends "force analysis" as an important dimension of needs assessment, and explains techniques for clarifying the relationship among goals and objectives and the grade levels and subject areas in which they are to receive emphasis. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
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Harlen, Wynne; Osborne, Roger – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1985
Described is a model for teaching elementary school science based on the generative view of learning: that meaning is created by the learner through mental processing that involves relating new input to existing ways of viewing the world. How curriculum researchers can help teachers implement this model is also discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Course Content, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Gordon, Elizabeth – 1990
This report outlines emerging paradigms of service for mentally retarded adults emerging from a nationwide search for innovative programs and practices. It was prompted by the consistent finding of a Pennsylvania longitudinal study that mentally retarded school completers tend to live indefinitely with parents or guardians. The study found the…
Descriptors: Adoption, Adults, Community Programs, Delivery Systems
Kendall, Jane C., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This publication is the second of three volumes of a resource book intended for anyone who wants to start, strengthen, or support a program or course that combines community or public service with learning. This volume, which is organized in four parts, provides a variety of practical issues and ideas for programs and courses that combine service…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), College Programs, Community Services, Course Descriptions
Kester, Diane D. – 1992
This study developed a preliminary model of the stages of school system participation in library networks and identified the major activities for each stage. Constructed from a study of the literature on innovation adoption and diffusion, observation, and informal interviews, the model is composed of four primary aspects: technological support,…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1976
This package of handbooks on the Far West Laboratory version of Experience-Based Career Education provides information on the distinctive features of the Far West model. Part 1 on management has four handbooks: program overview; administration (attendance, budget, insurance and liability, schedules, staff, troubleshooting and problem solving);…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
Rylatt, Alastair – 2001
This book is intended to provide managers, trainers, and others responsible for improving learning within their workplace with the tools, perspectives, and strategies to transform their workplace into a learning organization. Throughout the book, key principles underpinning recent thinking on positive workplace transformation are combined with…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Attitude Change
Kallenbach, Silja, Ed.; Viens, Julie, Ed. – 2001
This document contains nine papers from a systematic, classroom-based study of multiple intelligences (MI) theory in different adult learning contexts during which adult educators from rural and urban areas throughout the United States conducted independent inquiries into the question of how MI theory can support instruction and assessment in…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Attention Deficit Disorders, Career Choice