Innovation for Better Teaching and Learning: Adopting the Learning Management System

Planning for innovative teaching and learning technologies incurs more than just budgeting and coming up with figures that serves well in the top management’s eyes. A common mistake made by educational practitioners in planning and implementing new technologies is to enthusiastically select a technological medium and imposing its use to solve educational problem when the staff are not being prepared well in advance nor are they kept on alert so they could be regularly integrated into such projects. This paper describes the concerns of a group of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) lecturers regarding a technological innovation. Hall & Hord’s stages of concern questionnaire (SoCQ) is employed for the purpose of gauging the participants’ concerns about the use of a learning management system. An interesting show of positive attitude and open mindedness was observed from the participants’ response despite them being from a predominantly traditional teaching environment.

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