Institutional and faculty readiness to change as a response to e-learning.

摘要

In the past decade, the merging of educational technology and the Internet has resulted in the adoption of e-learning at many educational institutions. The focus of this case study is to examine the steps taken by the administration at a small college to introduce change as a response to e-learning, the steps taken to support this new initiative, and the attitudes that existed among the administrators and faculty members to support and facilitate the development of distance education.; In-depth interviews were conducted with faculty members and administrators to determine the steps taken to introduce e-learning and to examine the support given to faculty members during this change. Furthermore, the researcher wanted to determine the role faculty members played in the decision-making process surrounding the adoption of e-learning. Of special interest were the strategies used to support faculty members during this time of massive changes in teaching and learning methodologies.