1. Connecting Dots: Using Learning Taxonomy to Enhance Understanding of Innovation Adoption – Richard Rush

2. What do we care about adoption?

3. Innovation Adoption

4. Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) Knowledge Persuasion Decision Implementation Confirmation Rogers, 1962

5. IDT Adopter “Cohorts” Rogers, 1962

6. IDT and Learning Curves HESBIGABUN EBBINGHAUS 1885

7. Gaps in IDT Research and Implications  Classification of adopters by time of adoption  Pro-innovation bias  Individual blame bias  Limited focus on training and education effects  Potential tie to learning taxonomies

8. Learning Taxonomies

9. Bloom’s Taxonomy 1956

10. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001

11. Connection between IDT and BRT

12. Research Model Proposed

13. Moving through stages of BRT

14. Presence of Higher Order Activities

16. Methodology Proposed

17. Reference Management Software

18. General Lines of Inquiry PROPENSITY TO ADOPTNATURE OF ADOPTION

19. Quantitative Online Instrument

20. Pilot Study Initial Findings

21. Pilot Study Response Rates

22. Pilot Study Sample Characteristics

23. Data Analysis  Descriptive statistical analysis  Principal components analysis  Reliability analysis  Bivariate correlation analysis  Cross-tabulation analysis

24. Pilot Study Correlation

25. Next Steps  Adjustment of Instrument  Candidacy Exam  Proceed with Full Study  Qualitative Triangulation  Acknowledgement of Limitations

26. Key References  Anderson, L. W., & Krathwohl, D. R. (Eds.). (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching and assessing: A revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of educational objectives: Abridged edition, New York : Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.  Bloom, B.S. (Ed.), Engelhart, M.D., Furst, E.J., Hill, W.H., & Krathwohl, D.R. (1956). Taxonomy of educational objectives: The classification of educational goals. Handbook 1: Cognitive domain. New York: David McKay.  Ebbinghaus, H. (1885). Über das Gedchtnis. Untersuchungen zur experimentellen Psychologie. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot; the English edition is Ebbinghaus, H. (1913). Memory. A Contribution to Experimental Psychology. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University (Reprinted Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1999)  Rogers, Everett M. (1962). Diffusion of Innovations, Glencoe: Free Press.  Rogers, Everett M. (2003). Diffusion of Innovations (5 th ed.), New York, NY: Free Press.

27. Questions and Comments