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Publication Date: 2011
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Adopting Learning Technologies: From Belief to Practice
Bothma, Cornelius H.; Cant, Michael C.
Educational Studies, v37 n4 p375-389 2011
A challenge faced by most heads of academic departments around the world is to manage the adoption and use of appropriate learning technologies in order to support the department's learning offerings to students. Earlier research undertaken by the authors revealed that lecturers within the Department of Marketing and Retail Management at the University of South Africa believed a learning management system (LMS) to be the most appropriate technology to use. The experience of the Chair of Department, however, is that lecturers are using the university's proprietary LMS, "myUnisa", either to a limited extent or hardly at all. Consequently, further research was undertaken targeting the other Chairs of Departments and selected senior lecturers within the School of Management Sciences, to which the Department of Marketing and Retail Management belongs, in order to identify ways of increasing the use of "myUnisa" amongst lecturers. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Distance Education, Marketing, Foreign Countries, Appropriate Technology, Database Management Systems, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Practices, Beliefs, Business Education, Courseware, Use Studies, Educational Technology, Interviews, Technology Planning, Action Research, Etiology, Interest Inventories, Department Heads
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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