ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the influence of personal mobile devices (PMDs) on teaching practice, particularly in the case of educators who have not had experience in using educational technology in their practice. It aims to provide evidence from the particular context that able to scale up an innovation from one lecture and one class to five educators and one course among a group of educators, and thus develop a model for wider institutional implementation in a resource-constrained context. The chapter also focuses on the influence of PMDs on teaching practice, particularly in the case of educators who have not had experience in using educational technology in their practice. In the South African context, technologically immersed and savvy youth are in the minority and represent an elite, rather than a majority. The chapter utilizes the innovation-decision framework to frame changing practices and look at whether other educators in the course team chose to adopt the innovation or reinvent it.
