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The introduction of a new e-training technology is all very well, but the important question is: will it be successfully adopted and used? Conventional approaches to innovation suggest that adoption decisions are related mostly to the characteristics of the technology, but we will argue that the process is much more complex than this and that these approaches are too simplistic. In this paper we propose an ecological model of technological innovation, and show how it can be applied to considerations of the adoption of e-training products and methods.
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Tatnall, A., Davey, B. (2005). A New Spider on the Web. In: Nicholson, P., Ruohonen, M., Thompson, J.B., Multisilta, J. (eds) E-Training Practices for Professional Organizations. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 167. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23572-8_37
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