Examining technology acceptance by school teachers: a longitudinal study
Information and Management
Evaluating the educational impact of visualization
Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Experiences with a tablet PC based lecture presentation system in computer science courses
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Ubiquitous presenter: increasing student access and control in a digital lecturing environment
Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Perceived behavior control and its influence on the adoption of software tools
Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
What makes CS teachers change?: factors influencing CS teachers' adoption of curriculum innovations
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
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Part of computer science education research focuses on the design of new technologies and techniques for improving educational experiences. However, for these systems and techniques to be truly impactful, their use must be disseminated to the larger instructor population. Single-instance workshops, where instructors are brought together to learn about a new technique or system so that they can possibly adopt it, are a common dissemination method. Unfortunately, rarely do we see reports regarding their effectiveness. In this case study, we report on two NSF-funded single-instance workshops designed to support adoption of the Ubiquitous Presenter (UP) active learning classroom presentation system. Though only 44% of workshop attendees used the system in their classrooms, 65% of those used the system repeatedly. Overall this impacted 1570 students. Additionally, 60% of our attendees used the active learning features of UP - a much higher usage rate than in the general UP user population. We reflect on the aspects of the workshops which seemed to promote, and hinder, instructor adoption and, finally, suggest some metrics for evaluating innovation dissemination workshops in general.