Technology Adoption and Educational Change in Turkey
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The purpose of this research was to examine technology adoption and the educational change process. This paper found eight factors essential to technology adoption in countries that are heavily centralized and strongly affected by external forces (globalism etc.). These factors are communication, expertise capacity, minimal bureaucracy, continuous research, individual change and organizational change, peer schools, accountability, transparency, and owning the change: commitment. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2649-2.ch006
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- IJISSS
دوره 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011