An Educational Technology Dead End?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An Educational Technology Dead End?
An instructor, following a disappointing experience with Sakai, wonders whether the LMS isn't a dead end. As a wise faculty member once said to me, 'Faculty only learn one or two new technologies every two or three years--and adding an attachment to e-mail counts as two of those.' Why not try to slip a single-system solution into their lives as a single technology? The answer may be that course management systems can just as easily stifle learning as enable it". More...