Coffee Drop: Historical Perspectives

In this coffee drop, Jared shares with Rob research on the perception of innovation adoption in higher education and how it could inform the current perceptions of Generative AI. View a transcript of this week's episode. Resources Ajjan, H., & Hartshorne, R. (2008). Investigating faculty decisions to adopt Web 2.0 technologies: Theory and empirical tests. The Internet and Higher Education, 11(2), 71–80. Head, A. J., & Eisenberg, M. B. (2010). How today’s college students use Wikipedia for course-related research. First Monday, 15(3). Lim, S. (2009). How and why do college students use Wikipedia? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(11), 2189–2202. Mitchell, L. D., Parlamis, J. D., & Claiborne, S. A. (2015). Overcoming faculty avoidance of online education: From resistance to support to active participation. Journal of Management Education, 39(3), 350–371. Perkins, M., Roe, J., & Furze, L. (2025). Reimagining the Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale (AIAS): A refined framework for educational assessment. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 22(7). Shata, A. (2025). “Opting out of AI”: Exploring perceptions, reasons, and concerns behind faculty resistance to generative AI. Frontiers in Communication, 10, 1614804. Simkute, A., Kewenig, V., Sellen, A., Rintel, S., & Tankelevitch, L. (2025). The new calculator? Practices, norms, and implications of generative AI in higher education [Preprint]. arXiv. Waits, B. K., & Demana, F. (2001). Calculators in mathematics teaching and learning: Past, present, and future. Part 2: Technology and the mathematics classroom. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Willie, M. M. (2026). From calculators to artificial intelligence: A multi-level framework for technology adoption and resistance in education and organisations. Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 4(1), Article 3958. FOCUS Blog - Cedarville University CTL Chat with us! Connect with us via LinkedIn Contact us at ctlpodcast@cedarville.edu with any questions