Im doing research on this, with focus and relevance on HE and metropolitan universities, but not confined only to the UK. Initially it's for an MA dissertation, but I hope to build on the research afterwards to develop the scope of the project.
My website for the work is here: http://webteach.penworks.net/research
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I did my thesis for M.Sc. on Personality Characteristics associated with Innovative types with ICT according to the theory of Diffusion of Rogers. in this investigation I found four that make the difference between innovative with ICT, and non-innovative on pedagogical practice.
That's really interesting Carlos - any chance I can look at your work, for further reference? Naturally you'll get full credit for anything I might use in my paper. Rogers Diffusion of Innovation I think is going to be useful to me as i hope to 'tie in' some of his category approaches (early adopter/laggard etc) to some of the perceived/imagined problems and benefits I might be able to put together. I'm not only anticipating people are the issue though, as I'm tentatively expecting institutional policy and 'buy in' to also have significant effect - though I have no bias that this is the case.
I've seen a distinct pattern regarding "who is reluctant to use new technologies and who isn't".
Teachers who are younger and some of those older folks who still do practical work and have businesses are more open to using and implementing new technologies in their classes.
Those who gave up "learning" and are teaching old and out-dated things (but are still teaching because they are respected and/or influential) tend to be reluctant to learn about new technologies and therefore, because they don't understand/know, they just stick with the old pen-and paper equivalent.
Whenever new teaching or testing techniques become mandatory in teaching and student evaluation, by institution policy or other equivalent directive, there are those who resist it, but in the end new and good things get implemented and teaching becomes easy, students see benefits and studying quality increases.
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230683244_PERSONALS_CHARACTERISTIC_OF_INNOVATIVE_AS_BARRIER_FOR_THE_INTEGRATION_OF_ICT_IN_THE_CLASSROOM?ev=prf_pub
the publication is in spanish... but this in translation, when you have it, next week. I send you the link for you to have ...
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