Previous history relevant to their use of IT/innovation (personal or other) – was this when he/she began to use IT / to innovate?
- How did it happen, in what context?
- Alone, or in collaboration.
Why use IT / innovate? What was the intention / purposes? Pressures, inducements, opportunities Theory
How did their use of IT / their innovation proceed?
- Its extent
- What support (departmental, institutional, external)
- The implementation process
- Responses (colleagues, students, other)
- Any evaluation or reports
Life history of their use of IT / the innovation?
- Continuation or not
- Adaptation
- Extension / adoption (within the dept, university, external (same subject?))
Interest in their use/innovation Publications? Other outcomes, materials ect.
Reflection on the process
- Adequacy of support
- Opposition / obstacles
- Roles of committees, senior colleagues
- Did it survive, die, become embedded, change (as a result of what?)
Personal outcomes for the interviewee (any, positive, negative)
Lessons
- Implications for the interviewee
- Implications for organizational / institutional policy
- Implications for funding bodies
- Quality assurance
Have they got any documentation they can give us? Can they suggest any documentation we should see? Any other people we ought to contact?