Individual and Organisational Factors Influencing Academics' Decisions to Pursue the Scholarship of Teaching ICT
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This paper focuses on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) academics’ perceptions of factors that promote and inhibit their pursuit of scholarship in their teaching work. It identifies critical factors that influence academics’ attitudes, orientations and behaviours in respect to the scholarship of teaching, and from these builds a framework for understanding the interaction between these factors. We have named this framework the Scholarship of Teaching Support Framework.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- JITE
دوره 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005