Faculty Engagement in Online Education: Applying the Perceived Characteristics of Innovation to Explain Online Teaching Intention

There exists an increasing demand for online education; however, faculty may question the value of online courses as they grapple with making a connection between the face-to-face classroom and the online learning experience. Much research has focused on factors relating to student engagement, although we posit that faculty engagement represents an important aspect in the online learning context that has been fairly overlooked in the engagement research stream. Therefore, understanding the factors that influence a faculty’s intention to teach an OL course in addition to their level of engagement in teaching an online learning course is vital to the growth and success of an OL program. Therefore, in this study, we seek to not only understand the factors that influence faculty’s intention to teach online learning courses but also an instructor’s level of faculty engagement in online learning courses. We sought a novel lens with which to examine this phenomenon, so this study utilizes the perceived characteristics of innovation (PCI) to examine the relationships between faculty engagement and intention to teach online learning courses. We conducted a survey of 99 instructors from a large public university in order to assess the impact of PCI on faculty engagement and intention to teach online courses. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze the data, concluding that result demonstration, relative advantage, and compatibility influence a faculty’s level of engagement in an online learning course, which in turn influences their intention to teach an OL course. We discuss how this research can be utilized in order to more effectively allocate scarce resources by focusing on the relative advantage of online learning, the measurability of online learning, and the way in which it can be compatible with instructors teaching preferences. We present this study to enable the beginning of a new stream of research into faculty engagement.

Innovation in the library: Adoption of smartphones in accessing electronic resources in a Ghanaian university

This paper examines the influence of innovation on the adoption of smartphones for accessing electronic resources in the library by postgraduate students at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. The theoretical model that underpinned this study was the diffusion of innovation theory. Based on a quantitative research approach, a survey research design was used. Questionnaire was employed in the collection of data from 278 postgraduate students. The responses were coded, captured and analysed using IBM’s Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 22. The findings of the study show that postgraduate students’ gender and faculty influenced their adoption of smartphones for accessing e-resources at the University of Cape Coast. However, the age of the students did not have any significant influence on the adoption of smartphones. The findings further show that only two of the perceived characteristics of innovation, complexity and compatibility, had a significant influence on the adoption of smartphones among the postgraduate students.

Analisis Karakteristik Penggunaan Aplikasi Peer To Peer Lending Fintech dengan Model PCI

This study aims to determine the characteristics that influence the intention to use Peer to peer lending fintech applications with the Perceived Characteristics of Innovation (PCI) model. This study was conducted on 203 respondents who used the peer to peer lending fintech application and 114 respondents who did not use the Peer to peer lending fintech application in Indonesia. The results of this study indicate that the characteristics of innovation relative advantage, complexity, and observability can be determinants of people's intentions in using the Peer to peer lending application Fintech. Other characteristics of compatibility and trialability cannot be predictors of public interest in using peer to peer lending fintech services. There are other factors in people who do not use peer to peer lending fintech applications that most people are not interested in using applications. Some feel the application of peer to peer lending is against religion. Most of the other reasons are that they have never heard of the application and the public feels the complexity of using the peer to peer lending fintech application