On ECAR data and ed tech purgatory

By Phil Hill. Recently I wrote a post about many ed tech products being stuck in pilots without large-scale adoption.
In our consulting work Michael and I often help survey institutions to discover what technologies are being used within courses, and typically the only technologies that are used by a majority of faculty members or in a majority of courses are the following:

• AV presentation in the classroom;
• PowerPoint usage in the classroom (obviously connected with the projectors);
• Learning Management Systems (LMS);
• Digital content at lower level than a full textbook (through open Internet, library, publishers, other faculty, or OER); and
• File sharing applications. [snip]. Read more...