• Title/Summary/Keyword: Diffusion of Educational Innovation

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Suggestions from the Analysis of Factors to encourage the ICT Utilization in School (교사들의 ICT 활용 촉진 요인 분석 및 제언)

  • Park, Byung-Ho
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.271-279
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    • 2004
  • With changing to the new information technology society, education has also been urged to utilize the Information Ccmmunication Technology(ICT). Thanks to the recent efforts by the government, a large number of schools has been equipped with advanced educational technologies. While there has been a lot of studies on how to use ICT more effectively, relatively few is the studies about the activating factors of ICT utilization. More than often than not, those studies have been conducted about the survey of current situations of ICT utilization and have never had implemented based on the theory of diffusion of innovation. As a result, the current study surveyed the previous studies about encouraging and resistance factors of ICT utilization in light of the theory of diffusion of innovation and environmental encouraging factors by Ely. Then, the efforts were made to present suggestions to encourage the utilization of ICT in schools.

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A Study on Models of Graduate Courses in Governmental Research Institutes (출연(연) 단설대학원 운영모델 연구)

  • 김갑수;김전식;김정흠;이규호;이병민;조붕제;현병환
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.165-180
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    • 1998
  • This study suggests a new concept for the improvement of productivity and innovativeness of governmental research institutes(GRIs) : GRIs can also accomodate a special graduate course. Through the combination of educational function and research activities, the explict and tacit knowledge made by GRIs could be efficiently diffused to other sectors of national innovation system, especially industries. This study suggests three different models of graduate courses : independent course in each GRI, joint course by several GRIs, and joint course linking GRIs and university.

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How Much Do We Understand About Use of E-Commerce in OPAL Generation?: Focused on Diffusion of Innovation Theory (우리는 오팔(OPAL)세대의 이커머스 이용을 얼마나 이해하고 있는가?: 혁신확산이론을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Yesolran;Kim, Tae-Eun
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.129-137
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    • 2022
  • This study compared the sociodemographic characteristics and innovativeness of OPAL generation e-commerce users and non-users based on the innovation diffusion theory, and examined the effect of these personal characteristics on the availability of e-commerce use. The result showed that OPAL generation e-commerce users differed from non-users in gender, age, income level, education level, and functional, hedonistic, social and cognitive innovativeness. In addition, gender, age, educational level, functional and hedonistic innovativeness were found to be significant variables that determined the OPAL generation's use of e-commerce. Based on these results, we presented the theoretical and practical implications of this study.

Exploration of Digital Textbook Adoption and Implementation based on an extended Technology Acceptance Model (확장된 정보기술수용모델(TAM)을 기반으로 디지털교과서 수용 및 활용 탐색)

  • Suh, Soon-Shik
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.265-275
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that determined the adoption of digital textbook among elementary and middle school teachers, and to propose and validate a revised Technology Acceptance Model. The study was grounded in the innovation diffusion theory and the attribute factors proposed in the theory were used in the model. More specifically, observability, compatibility, and subjective norms were proposed as external factors and usefulness, easy of use, intention to use were proposed as internal factors in the proposed model. It was found that (a) observability, compatibility, and subjective norms were the main external factors that influenced the teachers' intention to use digital textbook and (b) the revised TAM was validated.

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The "open incubation model": deriving community-driven value and innovation in the incubation process

  • Xenia, Ziouvelou;Eri, Giannaka;Raimund, Brochler
    • World Technopolis Review
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.11-22
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    • 2015
  • Globalization, increasing technological advancements and dynamic knowledge diffusion are moving our world closer together at a unique scale and pace. At the same time, our rapidly changing society is confronted with major challenges ranging from demographic to economic ones; challenges that necessitate highly innovative solutions, forcing us to reconsider the way that we actually innovate and create shared value. As such the linear, centralized innovation models of the past need to be replaced with new approaches; approaches that are based upon an open and collaborative, global network perspective where all innovation actors strategically network and collaborate, openly distribute their ideas and co-innovate/co-create in a global context utilizing our society's full innovation potential (Innovation 4.0 - Open Innovation 2.0). These emerging innovation paradigms create "an opportunity for a new entrepreneurial renaissance which can drive a Cambrian like explosion of sustainable wealth creation" (Curley 2013). Thus, in order to materialize this entrepreneurial renaissance, it is critical not only to value but also to actively employ this new innovation paradigms so as to derive community-driven shared value that stems from global innovation networks. This paper argues that there is a gap in existing business incubation model that needs to be filled, in that the innovation and entrepreneurship community cannot afford to ignore the emerging innovation paradigms and rely upon closed incubation models but has to adopt an "open incubation" (Ziouvelou 2013). The open incubation model is based on the principles of open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation of shared value and enables individual users and innovation stakeholders to strategically network, find collaborators and partners, co-create ideas and prototypes, share their ideas/prototypes and utilize the wisdom of the crowd to assess the value of these project ideas/prototypes, while at the same time find connections/partners, business and technical information, knowledge on start-up related topics, online tools, online content, open data and open educational material and most importantly access to capital and crowd-funding. By introducing a new incubation phase, namely the "interest phase", open incubation bridges the gap between entrepreneurial need and action and addresses the wantpreneurial needs during the innovation conception phase. In this context one such ecosystem that aligns fully with the open incubation model and theoretical approach, is the VOICE ecosystem. VOICE is an international, community-driven innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem based on open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation principles that has no physical location as opposed to traditional business incubators. VOICE aims to tap into the collective intelligence of the crowd and turn their entrepreneurial interest or need into a collaborative project that will result into a prototype and to a successful "crowd-venture".

GREENING ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION: STRATEGIC ENTRY POINTS FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN EXISTING CURRICULA

  • Annie R. Pearce;Yong Han Ahn
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.764-773
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    • 2009
  • This paper presents an overview of six strategic entry points for sustainability in the context of the construction/engineering curriculum. It compares the pedagogical costs and benefits of each approach and shares lessons learned from experiences at two leading public American universities: Georgia Institute of Technology and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The paper discusses opportunities in terms of two perspectives on the pedagogy of sustainability: Stealthy Sustainability and Flagrant Sustainability, as part of a strategy of diffusion and routinization of this innovation within existing curricula. The paper concludes with a discussion of considerations that should be taken into account when evaluating the potential for sustainability in new educational contexts.

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Research Trends on Engineering Education in the United States - Focus on Journal of Engineering Education - (미국 공학교육 연구 동향 - Journal of Engineering Education을 중심으로 -)

  • Wee, Seonbouk;Jo, Hanjin;Kim, Dongyoung;Byeon, Hyesoo;Kim, Taehoon
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.61-74
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to provide a direction for domestic engineering education research by analyzing the research trends of JEE(Journal of Engineering Education). The results of analyzing research trends regarding research topics, research objects and research methods are as follows. First, by research topic, 'Diffusion of Educational Innovation' was found to have the highest proportion with 52 articles(21%). Second, by research objects, 'university students' showed the highest proportion with 148 articles(53.6%). Third, by research method (large category), 'quantitative research' had the highest proportion with 132 articles(53.2%). By research method (medium category), 'survey research' had the highest proportion with 129 articles(33.5%). Based on the results of this study, future engineering education research should be conducted to contribute to holistic development through diversification of research topics, methods, and objects.

The Strategic Plan of the Nutrition Education Intervention for Improving Nutritional Status and Reducing Nutrition-Related Diseases (한국 성인의 영양개선과 영양관련 질병의 감소를 위한 영양교육 계획)

  • 박동연
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.154-160
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    • 1993
  • The strategic plan of nutrition education intervention was established to improve nutritional status and reduce nutrition-related diseases for Korean adults. Nutritional problems and risk factors of the nutrition-related diseases were identified to set the long-term goal and objectives for the intervention. The social learning theory and theory of diffusion of innovation served as theoretical basis for this plan. Mass media and interpersonal channels were used to educate the whole adult population and specific target groups. The outline of the educational contents was developed for the whole adult population and slightly modified according to characteristics of the target groups. This plan can serve as a guideline for the operational plans for the future nutrition education intervention.

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Effect of perceptions of attributes of Cyber Education on the adoption decision (사이버학습 속성인식이 학습참여결정에 미치는 영향 분석)

  • Suh, Soon-shik
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2002
  • By entering the information society, the trend of increasing use of the cyber education to deliver high-Quality educational programs is likely to continue. For instance, supported by the government agencies, central officials training institute is expending vast amounts of money for the installation of cyber education programs. However, much of the research that has been done concerns the discrepancy between the potential and the actual use of technology in the field of education and training. The intent of this study was to identify the decision of the adoption of cyber education among national officials who had just peceived the existence the cyber education programs which would be used for their professional training and development, and to investigate the relationships between the Rogers' five attributes of innovation (relative advantage, compatibility, easy of use, observability, trialiability) and their decision of adoption. The results of the study generally concurred with Rogers diffusion of innovation theory revealing that perceived compatibility, easy of use, and observability of cyber education are significant predictors of decision to participate in cyber education.

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A Study on the Acceptance of Information Literacy Instruction for School Libraries in Korea (학교도서관 중심의 정보활용능력 교육 수용에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Yeon-Rye;Hong Hyun-Jin
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.3-32
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    • 2006
  • This paper examined the information literacy which is the concrete purpose of the ICT using education which appeared in order to elevate the effects of education in school after the introduction of the 7th educational curriculum. Based on TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) that provides useful theoretical foundations for analyzing the factors influencing acceptance and diffusion of IT, it determined the factors influencing the process of accepting the information literacy instruction as follows: perceived usefulness; perceived ease of use; attitude; effects of the information literacy instruction; teachers' innovation; school library relevance; school librarians' support; and the self-efficacy. This paper confirmed the influences of these factors on the process of accepting the information literacy through empirical study. Through this study, it intended to suggest the ways to activate of the information literacy instruction.

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