Webtools Newsletter has a good newsletter on Factors Inhibiting Change.
Kevin Cox leads with the following: Technology change is not simple. Even if a change is seen as desirable, it costs little, it helps students, it makes it easier for administration, it is little effort to teachers and it is acceptable to the community - then it may still not be adopted. What are the factors that make it hard to introduce technology change into education organizations?
Lots of interesting info. I particularly liked the part on relationships - fits for web logs even though I have not found info on web logs specifically. I'm still reading!
Relationships Depend on Information Access Technology enables the transmission of information. But fundamentally, the critical process is people interacting with other people. The world does not run on information; it runs on relationships. However, information enables us to have different relationships. Information is the currency of exchange in campus relationships. Information is exchanged in the classroom between faculty and students. Information is exchanged among research teams. Information is exchanged between the purchasing department and suppliers. Information is exchanged between college applicants and the admissions department. The potential quantities of information are staggering. But it is how the institution manages the information to form relationships that can yield competitive advantage.
Posted by Anne Davis on 12/3/02; 5:14:00 PM from the Tech News dept.
