The Diffusion of e-Learning

Michael Hanley has written a 3 part series of blogs on “E-Learning Adoption in Organizations: Diffusion of Innovation.” He reviews the “E-Learning Hype Cycle” produced about 2003 by Kevin Kruse, and then provides a “structural functionalist” approach to analyzing how innovations like e-learning are diffuse throughout the general business culture. He refers to the well known work of the late Everett Rogers (Diffusion of Innovations, 1962)  for his analysis. Here are the links for all three parts:

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

E-Learning Adoption in Organizations: Diffusion of Innovation | The E-Learning Curve | Michael Hanley | 8 November 2008

Tagged as: E-learning, Innovation