Share Paper: In Search of Cuban's Password: Faculty Initiative for Technology Development

  1. Glen Gummess, University of St. Francis, United States
Tuesday, November 5 10:45 AM-11:15 AM Balcony L

Abstract: A study of the factors that motivate college or university faculty to engage in technology-based professional development led to the definition of a new construct, faculty initiative, which attempts to capture the state of readiness of an instructor to use pedagogically sound digital tools for teaching. Faculty initiative appears to hold the potential for gauging when a teacher’s needs match with specific educational technologies leading to effective professional development. The construct arose a mixed methods explanatory dissertation study that used a pre-and-post survey of a convenience sample of faculty to assess their readiness for professional development in four areas—the potential ...