ADOPTING LEARNING DESIGN WITH LAMS: MULTI- DIMENSIONAL, SYNCHRONOUS LARGE-SCALE ADOPTION OF INNOVATION

• Authors: Emil Badilescu-Buga
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) has been trialled and used by users from many countries around the globe, but despite the positive attitude towards its potential benefits to pedagogical processes its adoption in practice has been uneven, reflecting how difficult it is to make a new technology based concept an integral part of the education system. In order to investigate and determine the elements that block the adoption of learning design tools in general, the study will review research papers that have been published in recent years on this subject, especially LAMS. The study will discuss patterns of critical aspects related to adoption of learning design tools and derive a framework that can be used in follow-up studies aimed at collecting relevant empirical data from practitioners to identify key progress measures of the adoption process. These measures may be used later to devise strategies that will see increased adoption of online learning design tools such as LAMS in school systems and higher education institutions.

Keywords

EN

learning design; LAMS; adoption life cycle; social network; information cognitive structures

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 18-35

Contributors

author

Emil Badilescu-Buga

• Macquarie E-Learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE) Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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