GIS Adoption Among Senior High School Geography Teachers in Taiwan

Journal of Geography

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 120-130

  Lay, Jinn Guey ^a   Chen, Yu Wen ^b,c   Chi, Yu Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

GIS adoption; in service training; social influence model (SIM); Taiwan; technology acceptance model (TAM)

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; GIS; KNOWLEDGE; MODELING; SECONDARY EDUCATION; TEACHER TRAINING;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84875917388     PISSN: 00221341     EISSN: 17526868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2012.682226     Document Type: Article

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