Innovative Software Use in an Educational Setting

ISBN-13: 9783659382314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 60 str.

Akbulut-Bailey Asli Yagmur

Opis

In the last decade, an increasing number of educational institutions have been revamping their curriculum to take advantage of available information technologies. The purpose of this book is to address a phenomenon observed at a high school after the school administration mandated the use of a software package in certain courses. After initial mandatory adoption, some students started voluntarily extending their use of the tool to other classes and to non-school related tasks. This book develops a model that can be used to explain the innovative uses of the software when the initial use is mandatory. Innovative use is defined as voluntarily expanding the use of software to new tasks and new settings after mandatory adoption for a specific task in a specific setting. Understanding the factors that affect students innovative use can help educators in designing strategies to raise the level of student learning and performance.

O autorze

Asli Yagmur Akbulut-Bailey is an associate professor at Grand Valley State University. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Information Systems and Decision Sciences from Louisiana State University. She also holds an M.B.A. degree. Her areas of expertise involve information systems education, enterprise systems, and information sharing.