Instructional Technology Adoption of Medical Faculty in Teaching

2005-01-01
ZAYİM, NEŞE
Yıldırım, İbrahim Soner
Saka, Osman
Despite large investment by higher education institutions in technology for faculty and student use, instructional technology is not being integrated into instructions in the higher education institutions, including medical education institutions. While diffusion of instructional technologies has been reached a saturation point with early adopters of technology, it has remained limited among mainstream faculty. This study explored technology adoption patterns and perceptions of medical faculty about barriers and incentives to technology adoption in leaching. Complete data was obtained from 155 participants by using survey methodology and analyzed on the basis of theories of diffusion of innovation. Findings provided evidence for limited adoption of relatively new tools associated with instruction into mainstream faculty. Inadequate hardware for students and faculty, lack of reward structure, insufficient traing oppurtunites were identified as major barriers to faculty technology adoption.
19th International Congress of the European-Federation-for-Medical-Informatics
Citation Formats
N. ZAYİM, İ. S. Yıldırım, and O. Saka, “Instructional Technology Adoption of Medical Faculty in Teaching,” presented at the 19th International Congress of the European-Federation-for-Medical-Informatics, Geneva, İsviçre, 2005, Accessed: 00, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/108659.