TY - GEN
T1 - Using the Diffusion of Innovation Theory to Explain Foundation Phase Teachers’ Perceptions of Online Zoom Classes During a Pandemic – A Case of a South African Private School
AU - Pillay, Komla
AU - Prinsloo, Tania
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In this paper, the emphasis is on teaching the foundation phases of school via the Zoom platform during the Covid-19 pandemic. Fifteen out of the eighteen teachers of a private school in South Africa completed the survey questions, and the questions were then analyzed using the Diffusion of Innovation Theory. Most teachers felt that they were able to use Zoom successfully, although they prefer face-to-face teaching. The paper’s main contribution is the identification of six factors affecting the use of Zoom, namely the importance of being prepared, the role that the environment plays, the resources available, the ability of the student, the infrastructure in place, and lastly, the part that discipline plays. Future research will involve more grades in the study, not only grades 1 to 3, and survey other schools and their teachers using similar online teaching tools.
AB - In this paper, the emphasis is on teaching the foundation phases of school via the Zoom platform during the Covid-19 pandemic. Fifteen out of the eighteen teachers of a private school in South Africa completed the survey questions, and the questions were then analyzed using the Diffusion of Innovation Theory. Most teachers felt that they were able to use Zoom successfully, although they prefer face-to-face teaching. The paper’s main contribution is the identification of six factors affecting the use of Zoom, namely the importance of being prepared, the role that the environment plays, the resources available, the ability of the student, the infrastructure in place, and lastly, the part that discipline plays. Future research will involve more grades in the study, not only grades 1 to 3, and survey other schools and their teachers using similar online teaching tools.
KW - Diffusion of innovation theory
KW - Foundation phase teachers
KW - Pandemic
KW - Zoom
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121577807&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-91540-7_53
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-91540-7_53
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85121577807
SN - 9783030915391
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 521
EP - 532
BT - Innovative Technologies and Learning - 4th International Conference, ICITL 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Huang, Yueh-Min
A2 - Lai, Chin-Feng
A2 - Rocha, Tânia
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 4th International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2021
Y2 - 29 November 2021 through 1 December 2021
ER -
