- Title
- ‘There’s a pandemic coming, get yourselves some tablets’: Lessons from the pandemic on a community of practice approach to learning technology diffusion
- Creator
- Bridge, Christopher; Loch, Birgit; Bell, Carolyn; Thompson, Belinda; Horey, Dell; Julien, Brianna; Agolli, Julia
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/204105
- Identifier
- vital:19981
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.14742/apubs.2022.100
- Identifier
- ISSN:2653-665X
- Abstract
- A well-planned program for disseminating good practice in teaching with tablet computers within a large science, health and engineering faculty of an Australian university fortuitously came to fruition just in time for the switch to emergency remote teaching triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. For teachers in disciplines which rely on symbolic representation systems and hand-sketched diagrams, the tablets proved indispensable in overcoming the challenges of teaching under pandemic conditions. Our dissemination strategy was based on an initial phase of voluntary adoption supported by a well-resourced, academic-led community of practice, alongside the establishment of a library of some 80 devices. Using analyses of loan records, a survey of tablet borrowers, and in-depth interviews, we investigate the diffusion pathways of the decision to adopt, as well as tablet teaching know-how. We draw the preliminary conclusion that our community of practice approach to dissemination has wider applicability beyond our pandemic experience.
- Relation
- ASCILITE Publications Vol. , no. (2022), p. e22100
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Open Access
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