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Population of faculty has different abilities to incorporate technology into their courses effectively.
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Transfer of information between faculty, from high concentration to low concentration.
| Category | Recruitment & learning curve |
Support requirements | Retention |
| innovator |
no recruiting effort rapid learners |
maybe low from faculty development | long term |
| early adopters |
minor effort rapid learning |
moderate and in spurts | will probably stick with it |
| early mainstream |
substantial effort reasonable learning curve |
higher and continuous |
fickle: may drop out if technology is unreliable |
| late mainstream |
major effort trainable but slow |
highest level of continuous support needed | brittle: may drop out after minor failure of technology |
| laggards | uninterested | not feasible |
