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From: crm@duke.cs.duke.edu (Charlie Martin)
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Subject: Re: Becoming CAI literate
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With reference to technology diffusion, you might be interested in the
technology transfer literature.  There are a few journals and such.

It ends up being a sociological sort of problem, so really rigorous
research is hard (-> infinity) to do, but the research that is around
suggests some odd things: transfer isn't necessarily driven just by
novelty and usefulness, and (at least in software) it takes much longer
than might be expected for technology to transfer (avg 15 years.)

I'll try to post a couple of TT journal names later today.
-- 
Charlie Martin (crm@cs.duke.edu,mcnc!duke!crm)