This page will provide you with videos, questionnaire activities, and web resource links to help develop your educational technology professional development training sessions utilizing the DoI model.
Diffusion of
Innovations
        Practice in ETPD
Dr. Tom Valente is a professor at USC (University of Southern California) in the Preventive Research and Medicine Department. The following set of videos and reflections are meant to further your understanding of the DoI model as it relates to the development and implementation of an Educational Technology Professional Development (ETPD) plan. 
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Diffusion of Innovations (DoI)
Videos and Questionnaire Activities
DoI in Practice
There are several resources available to help further engage your knowledge base of DoI for the purpose of building a solid foundation in your ETPD practice.  These resource links will aide in your understanding and application of the DoI model while producing and effective ETPD at your school, organization or government agency.
 
 

1.  What is one of the most important principles in the DoI model?

2. When and by whom was this model first used and how?

3.  Do economical variable influence the adoption of a new innovation?

4. Do social variables influence the adoption of a new innovation?

5.  What are some of the ways to overcome both the economical and social variables when implementing the DoI in an ETPD?


DoI
by: Dr.Tom Valente- Part 1
Reflection
Activity (1)
 
DoI
by: Dr.Tom Valente- Part 2
 
 
 

1.  What some of the behavior change stages in an DoI?

2. How does the KAP (Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice) model relate to the DoI theory?

3.  What is the KAP GAP?

4. How does DoI work typically in a social system?

5.  Come up with a plan of action on how you would diffuse a new technology in an ETPD. 

What will be some of the key strategies you would utilize in order to spread a new technological innovation most rapidly to all of the members in the ETPD training session?

URL Link: Learning, Technology and Educational Transformation

Description: A detailed explanation of the stages that teachers go through as they learn about and adopt these innovative applications of technology
Web Resource (1)
 
Reflection
Activity (2)
URL Link: Journal of Extension


Description: Using Diffusion of Innovation Concepts for Improved Program Evaluation
Web Resource (2)
Web Resource (4)
 
 
 
 
Web Resource (3)
Web Resource (5)
 
URL Link: Ariadne

Description: Models of Early Adoption of ICT Innovations in Higher Education
URL Link: Diffusion Simulation Game (DSG)

Description: In this simulation game you will be playing the role of a change agent in a hypothetical school. Your objective is to persuade as many of the staff members as possible to adopt a particular innovation.
URL Link: Answers.com--Diffusion of Innovations

Description: Answers.com gives a detailed definition, videos and additional resources on the DoI model.
Web Resource - - READINGS(1)
 
 
URL Link: Creating Desktop Movies in Education


Description: Case study using the DoI model to introduce desktop movie creation to educators for the purpose of enhance the classroom experience. By:Kate Kemker
Web Resource - - READINGS(2)
URL Link: Educational Reform as Innovation Diffusion

Description: A theory and test of the DoI model using continuing professional development and instructional technology. By:Michael Szabo