Identifying key actors for technology adoption in higher education: A social network approach

ASCILITE 2012 - Annual conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mirriahi, Negin ^a   Dawson, Shane ^a   Hoven, Debra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Higher education; Social networks; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION; COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; HIGHER EDUCATION; HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS; LEARNING CONTEXT; NOVEL STRATEGIES; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84912571054     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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