Barriers to Learning Technology

In my medical-legal psychiatric practice, I am developing a medical services organization (MSO) to assist doctors with their administrative tasks involved in conducting their own medical-legal evaluations.  I am implementing the latest technologies, as much as I am able.  Implementation of those technologies has been sluggish.  However, I have simply redoubled my efforts, allowed for a longer time-line, and have developed additional strategies in order to implement the technologies successfully. 

I have found people to be impatient, including myself.  They have not believed that I would be able to apply and utilize the technology in the manner that I have expressed. 

Others have resisted moving forward as evidenced by sighing, asking questions without trying, delaying. I have found people misunderstood what I am intending to do with the technologies. 

Keller (1984) as described by Driscoll (2005) listed four circumstances that need to be present in order for a person to learn with motivation; namely, attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction. 

To improve others’ motivation to learn about and implement my proposed technologies, I can implement Keller’s philosophies.

First, I will grab their attention, perhaps by showing them how the technology is going to be fun and interesting.   

Then, I can demonstrate how the technology is relevant to their job, and how it will make their job easier.  I can share about the vision of how everyone and everything are going to coordinate more effectively with the proposed technology.

Third, I can give them guidance so that they experience success using the technology, which will build their confidence.

Finally, I will encourage their satisfaction through rapid feedback with their accomplishments!

References:

Driscoll, M. P. (2005). Psychology of learning for instruction (3rd ed.).Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.