Learners in a Telecommunications Course

This study examined the effects of Internet instruction on the attitudes of learners toward a new innovation before, during, and after the instruction. Responses from the stages of concern instrument are used as the dependent measure. Regressions were run to see whether any linear relationships exist between learners’ stages of concern and their prior computer knowledge in the following categories: (a) general, (b) content-area software, (c) word processors, (d) databases, (e) spreadsheets, (f) programming languages, (g) authoring languages, (h) hypermedia, and (I) the Internet. Results indicated general trends toward increased overall positive attitudes toward this new innovation, the Internet.