The expansive scope of articles featured in this Special Issue on "The Future of Technology in Marketing" is impressive. The range of topics examined illustrates, in a very compelling manner, how technology is reshaping wide swaths of markets in digital environments-and the rapidly evolving role of marketing in these markets. These changes raise a number of new challenging questions, but als…
Teacher education programs often focus on how to use technology rather than on how to teach with technology. Further, teachers with more exposure to technology do not always use technology tools to help their students learn. This study investigated an educational technology course that provided hands-on activities in a collaborative, non-threatening environment to determine if it would improve …
The purpose of this study is to determine ways to facilitate teachers' uses of instructional technology. First, we provide a review of criteria for selecting useful computer resources for instructional purposes. Secondly, we describe results from a survey that addresses teachers' beliefs about technology, their technological resources, and support for the use of instructional technology in thef…
In this fast-growing and evolving world, usage, and adoption of technology both in and out of the class have displayed an essential component of the learning process and incorporates almost every domain of the learning aspects. It aids in learning distinct entities irrespective of their levels of challenges by incorporating both viewpoints of learning i.e., competence as well as performances of…
This paper examines various ways of helping teachers to develop positive mind-sets in using technology to support instruction. Such positive mind-set will assist teachers in achieving the spontaneity and the readiness necessary for technology integration. Developing positive mind-sets represents one way of overcoming computer intimidation. The concept of technology integration is examined from …
Nowadays, much attention is directed to IT in order to facilitate better human resource management and improve decision-making results with the factors that influence it, such as the cost of using ICT, setting regulations and the implications of reporting standards that are accurate and comprehensive, and the need to deal with increasing rate of change in organizations. IT governance is one of …
This paper focuses on the use of digital pen technology in interpreting practice and research. It seeks to advance the field of interpreter training through the trial of contemporary technology and the possible development of a hybrid mode of interpreting that has attributes of both conventional modes of interpreting--consecutive and simultaneous (hereafter labelled Consec-simul with notes)--du…
This paper explores the literature review on 1:1 laptop initiatives in America's digital schools and school district efforts to integrate technology into classroom instruction to maximize student learning. The findings indicate that the much needed instructional integration has not kept pace with the increase in available instructional technology tools. Therefore, there is need for school distr…
Advancements in technology are radically transforming service, and increasingly providing the underlying basis for service strategy. In this paper, we develop a typology and positioning map for service strategy, in the context of rapid technological change, and outline the process for firms to position or reposition their service strategies. Which strategy to choose is based on the degree to wh…