E-learning Curve Blog at Edublogs

I hadn’t planned on blogging about informal learning today, but an article in Irish e-zine Silicon Republic interested me, and I thought I’d bring it to you.

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Previously, I looked at rates of adoption for

Innovators
Early Adopters
The Early Majority

In this last post in this series, I will describe the final categories of adopters of diffused ideas.
The Majority
As a group, the Majority can be characterized as having less education and are older than the Early Majority. While they participate [...]

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In this, the penultimate post in this series, I will describe some more categories of early adopters, before concluding the series tomorrow.
As discussed in yesterday’s post, there are there are five categories of adopters of diffused ideas:

Innovators
Early Adopters
Early Majority
Majority
Nonadopters

I covered the first category, Innovators previously.
Early Adopters
The second category of adopters [...]

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The diffusion curve (see Table 1) illustrates the typical slow initial rate of adoption, the a substantial acceleration of update, followed by leveling off of the adoption rate. Bohlen and Beal’s research shows “significant differences” (p.4) in the individual and social characteristics of people in alignment with the time they adopt an innovation.

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Individuals or organizations will typically go through these processes at varying speeds, depending on factors ranging from the cost, time, and effort required to implement the diffused concept, the return on the investment, how well it aligns with their previous experience with similar concepts, as well as the complexity of the idea or technology under consideration.

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Innovation and change – new ideas, processes, technologies, and work practices are a common part of the workplace environment. Sometimes these emerge spontaneously, and are disseminated organically, but more typically, new or different approaches are implemented as part of a strategic plan, or imposed upon workers under an operational or performance enhancement program.

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