However, this instrument focuses on use of particular technologies and not particular teaching practices.
They pointed out that technology adoption occurs when users engage in a series of decisions that are outcomes of comparison of the advantages and disadvantages associated with the use of particular technologies.
In many cases, those jobs require pastoralists to do what they already have been doing for generations - livestock husbandry - but under a new set of circumstances that involve inflexible top-down rules, fixed grazing patterns, or mandatory use of particular technologies.
Moreover, they argue that when we look at the actual uses of particular technologies we discover that users use them in many diverse and often unexpected ways leading to many and diverse unintended consequences.
Philosophers of technology often speak of the affordances or gradients of particular technologies in given contexts (Vallor 2010) insofar as they make certain patterns of use more attractive or convenient for users (while not rendering alternative patterns impossible).
The EPA is likely to set minimum standards of energy efficiency and to mandate the use of particular green technologies, among other things.Using the Clean Air Act, by the administration's own admission, is not the cheapest or most effective way to cut emissions.
An evangelist is a special role in the system with established competences in promoting the use of a particular technology through talks, bonding with gatekeepers, writing articles for professional as well as general media, blogging, boosting user demonstrations, presenting recorded demonstrations or the creation of sample projects (Beatty and Gordon 1991; Lucas-Conwell 2006).
Lai et al. (2012) noted that it is only when students feel that the use of a particular technology is compatible with their learning styles, expectations, and beliefs, will they be inclined to initially adopt the technology for learning and continue using such.
Federal law currently does not require use of any particular technology for product tracing and allows paper-based records until 2017, at which point electronic records will be required by manufacturers; repackagers will be required to include electronic records in 2018.
This was a study of the use of particular Internet-based learning technologies, delivery methods and learning approaches.
Milestones in health service provision Efforts to control specific diseases began early in the 20th century, and escalated markedly in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s with the advent of mass campaigns focusing on the reduction or eradication of a specific disease using a particular technology.
