The impact of faculty attitudes toward technology, distance education, and innovation

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 625-646

  Tabata, Lynn N ^a   Johnsrud, Linda K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion of innovation theory; Distance education; Faculty; Institutional policy; Ordinal regression; Technology use

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249109704     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-008-9094-7     Document Type: Article

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