The Challenges
Faculty training still does not acknowledge the fact that digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession.
Teachers needs to be learning how to use the technology themselves, too. Where formal training lacks, professional development needs to step in, and does in many cases. But integrating the how-to of technology with the how-to of teaching needs to happen.
The emergence of new scholarly forms of authoring, publishing, and researching outpace sufficient and scalable modes of assessment.
The traditional approaches to scholarly evaluation don’t always match up with the more ‘modern’ forms of research (things that include social media use, online collaborations, etc). Though these things often happen in the real world, the academic decision makers who deem what is acceptable and what is not haven’t caught up yet.
Too often it is education’s own processes and practices that limit broader uptake of new technologies.
Things like the promotion and tenure process don’t lend themselves well to integrating technology – that is, if you’re working towards tenure and your field of specialization isn’t education technology, figuring this stuff out is not on the top of the priority list (or even encouraged).
The demand for personalized learning is not adequately su
This is explaining to a teacher, how they can integrate the internet into their classroom in one week.
