Technology Adoption in Cambodia: Measuring Factors Impacting Adoption Rates

✍ Scribed by Jayson W. Richardson

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 105 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0954-1748
• DOI: 10.1002/jid.1661

✦ Synopsis

This study was conducted to investigate which factors were most influential on Cambodian teacher trainers' decision to adopt the use of a spceific set of ICT skills. Discriminant analysis was used to study differences among five groups of teacher trainers. Group membership was determined based on the theory of the diffusion of innovations. The discriminant analysis indicated that after controlling for demographics (i.e., age, gender, experience, and type of training college) the choice to adopt use was most significantly influenced if use of the ICT skills was perceived to be easy and mandatory. Findings for future ICT in education initiatives in less developed countries are discussed.