Factors Affecting the Adoption of ICT Curriculum Innovations and Educational Technology

Abstract

Those of us involved in teaching about or using Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are well aware that this is an area subject to continual rapid change. This paper begins by examining the various external influences on ICT curriculum. It then makes the point that any new technology or idea must be adopted before it can be used and asserts that the adoption and use of both new ICT curriculum and the educational technology used in its delivery should be considered in terms of innovation theory. Giving several examples, the paper then examines how innovation theory can be used to explain and even to foster this adoption.