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FACULTY RESISTANCE ISSUES
Quality Of Education Concerns (Stapp, 2002).
Copyright And Intellectual Property Issues (Stapp, 2002).
What Constitutes Good Teaching (Stapp, 2002).
“In academia, obstacles to change are closely associated with the established practices and cultural traditions of the teaching faculty” (Jaffee, 1998).
“However, those who are actually using new instructional technologies represent a relatively small percentage of the faculty population (most surveys report between 20 and 30%) (Jaffee, 1998).
“ALNs …are virtual classrooms that dematerialize the physical classroom setting. It is this feature of ALNs, I believe, that poses the greatest perceived threat and, accordingly, prompts the most negative reaction from faculty. Not only do the majority have no intention of utilizing this technology, they may also view it as an illegitimate learning mode.” (Jaffee, 1998).
Concerns about job security.
“It is worth noting, in this regard, that I have observed far less faculty opposition to the televideo transmission of classroom lectures despite the fact that this delivery mode poses a potentially greater threat to faculty job security and possesses none of the interesting pedagogical features of ALNs” (Jaffee, 1998).
Concerns about actual job function.