Today's teachers are charged with transforming education through technology, providing all learners with access and meaningful experiences across content areas in ways of teaching and learning they may never have experienced themselves. This dissertation examines the effect of increasing preservice teachers' prior personal learning experiences…

This study extends the understanding of the process of teachers' technology adoption by investigating the dynamic nature of the adoption process. We propose a nonhomogeneous hidden Markov model that reveals the dynamics of teachers' adoption over time and examines the impact of internal and external factors, including experiences, interventions,…

The implementation of Telemedicine in behavioral health centers can be expensive if proactive steps were not taken to minimize user perceptions towards the new technology. Despite the significant capital investments on new Telemedicine, no consensus identified and explained what factors determined the acceptance, or rejection, of the technology.…

For the twenty-ninth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…