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Journal article Instability absorption by tertiary educators: Technology adoption under conditions of fragility in the Liberian higher education sectorO. Jolugbo, A. Reeves-Taylor AJIC2026

Instability absorption by tertiary educators: Technology adoption under conditions of fragility in the Liberian higher education sector

Olajide Jolugbo, Agnes Reeves-Taylor · 17 Jul 2026

The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC), No. 37, 1–12

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Abstract

Interviews and a survey of 22 educators at 11 Liberian tertiary institutions show that digital teaching keeps running because educators absorb the disruptions of unstable infrastructure, not because systems are supplied and accepted. The authors propose an instability absorption model to describe it.

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Olajide Jolugbo, Agnes Reeves-Taylor (2026). Instability absorption by tertiary educators: Technology adoption under conditions of fragility in the Liberian higher education sector. The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC), No. 37, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.23962/ajic.i37.26232

Published in The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC), not by NIIP. The abstract above is NIIP’s short account of the paper; the authors’ own abstract opens the paper itself.