@article{article_292135, title={Investigation of Instructional Technology Acceptance and Individual Innovativeness of Academicians}, journal={Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry}, volume={8}, pages={291–322}, year={2017}, DOI={10.17569/tojqi.292135}, author={Akgün, Fatma}, keywords={Bireysel yenilikçilik,teknoloji kabulu,öğretim teknolojileri,öğretim elemanı}, abstract={<span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">The purpose of this study is to investigate individual innovativeness
and instructional technologies acceptance of academicians in Faculty of
Education. The participants of this mixed methods study are 92 academicians on
duty between the years of 2013 and 2014 in public universities. This study was
conducted using a scale of “Individual Innovativeness”, created by Hurt,
Joseph, and Cook (1997) and adapted by Kılıcer and Odabasi to comply with
Turkish culture. Another scale of “Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)” developed
by Davis (1989) was also used for the purpose of this study. TAM scale was
adapted by the researcher to comply with Turkish culture. Qualitative data were collected from 13 academicians
with different specialty areas and
seniority using semi-structured interview form. Statistical tests were used to
analyze quantitative data, and content analysis was used to analyze qualitative
data. According to the findings obtained from quantitative and
qualitative data that academicians have high levels of individual innovative
characteristics such as leadership characteristic. The academicians also have
positive perspectives towards acceptance, usage, and usefulness of instructional technologies. This study found a
positive and significant relationship between participants’ individual
innovativeness characteristics and acceptance perception towards instructional
technology. This study also showed that qualitative and quantitative data
supported one another. The researcher made suggestions regarding innovativeness
and instructional technology acceptance. </span> <br />}, number={3}, publisher={Abdullah KUZU}