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The Effect Of A New Version Of Software On Its Use: A Case Study Of A Course Management System, John Beckett
The Effect Of A New Version Of Software On Its Use: A Case Study Of A Course Management System, John Beckett
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Course Management Systems (CMS) are used to support the growing trend of colleges and universities to offer classes at a distance, and to use technology to provide resources and communication with and for students in traditional classroom settings. Actual use and success of these systems has been mixed in practice, however, for reasons which are not entirely clear.
The theory of Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) described and codified by Everett M. Rogers in 1962 is used to describe how innovations are selected, adopted, and brought to bear on the needs of people with jobs to do. Gary C. Moore and …