The model incorporates constraints (e.g., fiscal, legal), personnel (e.g., teachers, students), and innovational domains (e.g., reward system, role expectations). (DAG)

Develops a model of users' perceptions of Web technology as a training tool. Discusses users' attitudes toward Web-based environments that integrate the Technology Acceptance Model, Social Cognitive Theory, motivational perspective, self-efficacy perspective, and attitude in order to develop a new aspect of users' perceptions toward Web-based…

Discussion of technology integration into the curricula focuses on the needs of teachers who don't want training or are not prepared to learn from it due to lower levels of skill and confidence. Considers how instructional designers can build teachers' self-efficacy and proposes a model that is responsive to teacher's needs. (LRW)

Discusses the issue of online teaching and presents a change model, the Personal Response Model, that focuses on the adoption of online teaching by experienced faculty in higher education. Topics include diffusion of innovations and types of adopters; experiences with instructional development, including emotional response to innovation; and…

Presents a model and an underlying process for selecting technology mediated teaching strategies. Discusses the use of the Internet in the learning process; computer-mediated communication; educational appropriateness of technology adoption; technology integration; learning principles for the model; and how to implement the model. (Author/LRW)

Describes a model for identifying factors affecting teachers' use of instructional media and suggests methods to increase teachers' expertise with instructional media. The instructional performance engineering model is explained, teacher inservice training related to the Concerns-Based Adoption Model is discussed, and an Instructional Media…

Discussion of the impact of computers on education highlights the role that educational technologists can play as change agents. Topics discussed include models of the diffusion and adoption of innovations; computer interfaces; integrated software; teacher training; teachers' roles; and the use of magnet schools to demonstrate the effectiveness of…