Complexity

"Is it too difficult to understand or use in authentic settings?"
__Complexity__. Innovations that are seen as difficult to understand or adopt will diffuse more slowly, as few will voluntarily embrace change that makes their lives more difficult.

To make a theoretical or procedural innovation clearer to intended adopters, you can check out Hall and Hord's (1987) //Innovation Configuration (IC) Component Checklist//, discussed in Chapter 7 of Ellsworth.

Taken directly from p. 57 of

Ellsworth, J.B. (2000). Surviving change – a survey of educational change models. (ERIC Clearing House on Information and Technology, Syracuse, NY. (ED443417)