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Aldahdouh, Tahani Z.; Murtonen, Mari; Riekkinen, Jere; Vilppu, Henna; Nguyen, Trang; Nokelainen, Petri – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The purpose of this study was to understand the factors behind university teachers' ability to implement instructional changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online questionnaire comprised of open-ended and Likert-scale questions was administered to teachers at a Finnish university in April 2020. The sample consisted of 378 university teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Change Strategies, Instruction
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Aldahdouh, Tahani Z.; Nokelainen, Petri; Korhonen, Vesa – SAGE Open, 2020
This article presents a two-phase study exploring the usage of technology in higher education as well as the role of the general innovativeness in predicting the actual use of technology. During the first phase of the study, which involved 502 staff members, a descriptive analysis of their usage of social media, technological devices, and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Technology, Higher Education, Educational Innovation
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Aldahdouh, Tahani Z.; Nokelainen, Petri; Korhonen, Vesa – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Innovativeness has been believed to be a significant psychological construct underlying individual differences in adopting novel ideas, experiences or approaches. Although few recent studies have contributed to identifying the factors that predict innovativeness, there is a lack of research showing the impacts of implicit theories and goal…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Higher Education, College Faculty, Goal Orientation
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Salmisto, Alpo; Nokelainen, Petri – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
This article examines the application of knowledge creation learning and innovation to higher education in construction. The objectives are to demonstrate the application of the course based on knowledge creation learning to mass teaching and to analyse whether knowledge creation learning improves student motivation and learning. The empirical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Engineering, Engineering Education, College Freshmen