A quasi-experimental study explored the impact of authentic learning exercises on preservice teachers' motivational beliefs and intentions to integrate technology, as well as the ability of those beliefs to predict intentions. A questionnaire was used to assess 104 preservice teachers 'expectancy-value related motivational beliefs, namely intrinsic and extrinsic goal orientations, task value, s…
During the past two decades, higher education has seen significant evolution in instructional philosophies and methods, in technologies employed in teaching and learning, and in the roles and responsibilities of leaders of academic technology support services. Yet, recent studies have documented declining numbers of comprehensive instructional technology service units, as well as a declining pe…
Abstract. School psychologists have an ethical imperative to determine the ways computers can facilitate practice because of the potential to improve effectiveness and efficiency. At the same time, psychologists have a parallel imperative to consider carefully ethical and professional practice implications. The aspects of computers that render them most helpful also render them most vulnerable …
We present a framework of durable goods purchasing behavior in related technology product categories that incorporates the following aspects unique to technology product purchases. First, it accounts for consumers' anticipation of declining prices (or increasing quality) over time. Second, the durable nature of technology products implies that even if two categories are related as complements, …
The third millennium has seen various concepts as a result of the interaction between the knowledge revolution and communications technology. And from their features the emergence of a knowledge society, which had produced new concepts adequate with the requirements of this society such as: digital publishing which has produced digital contents in different fields. The digital content industry …
This study examined the impact that instructional technology use, course design, and instructor and student sex differences have on students' initial perceptions of affect toward the course and the instructor. Participants included 864 students who were randomly assigned to read one of 16 scenarios that manipulated the amount of instructional technology use across two types of courses with eith…
The article is devoted to the problem of designing recycling in sustainable logistics systems in the field of processing wastewater treatment waste - municipal sewage sludge (MSS) in the focus of information technology management. The essence of the developed and proposed wastewater treatment project is based on its integration into the city's public utilities system, which will be a single bas…
This paper discusses the definitions and evolution of instructional technology in America and Malaysia. The paper begins with the definitions of instructional technology and its development from the 1920s to the present, and how it relates with the development of ICT at Sultan Idris Education University Malaysia. The Sultan Idris Education University is the first Teacher Training College starte…
This study aims to examine the effect of decentralization, environmental uncertainty, and information technology on managerial performance through a management accounting system. This research is conducted using a quantitative approach, namely research using research instruments and quantitative data analysis with the aim of testing the predetermined hypothesis. The data used in this study is p…
The main purpose of this study was to investigate factors that either hinder or contribute to teachers' technology use in the elementary schools of Turkey. The data was collected through interviews, observations, document analyses and a survey. The results identified six major barriers to teachers using technology based on the teachers' responses. They are (a) limitations of physical settings, …