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Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Time Will Tell on Issues Concerning Faculty and Distance Education - Angela O. Ansah, James T. Johnson; Online Journal of Dist. Learning Admin.
Abstract: Technology-based distance education (TBDE) is increasingly being used to supplement higher education needs and this is raising a variety of concerns in universities. This study examined the differences in the concerns expressed by instructional faculty of three comparable universities that differ primarily in their stages of implementing distance education. The results showed statistically significant differences among the universities’ faculty concerns. The findings were congruent with one facet of the Concerns–Based-Adoption Model which states that “stage or stages where concerns are more (and less) intense will vary as the implementation of change progresses” (Hord, Rutherford, Huling-Austin, & Hall, 1987, p.30). They also reflected the “implementation dip” that postulates that conditions often get worse temporarily before they improve in a change process (Fullan, 1991, 1996).
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