12 Common Education Technology Implementation Problems and How to Prevent and Remediate Them

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There are many potential challenges that those who are responsible for implementing new or updated  instructional or education technologies can encounter. This article discusses a dozen of these common pitfalls and offers suggestions for how to avoid or remediate these potential issues. Whether you are involved in a technology roll-out on a small scale, perhaps in a single class or course, or on a larger scale such as across an entire institution, the observations in this article can position you to be equipped for success.

The chapter/article provides insights into how to avoid these 12 common challenges that instructional and education technology implementations are likely to encounter:

1. Insufficient Budget
2. Failure to secure senior administrator or executive level buy-in
3. Not having a sponsor
4. Inadequate training
5. Insufficient technical testing and validation
6. Failing to involve faculty from the onset
7. Forgetting to consider the student’s perspective
8. Relevancy (will the intended audience want to use it?)
9. Not planning for adequate support
10. Failure to incorporate training into on-boarding for new staff/faculty/students
11. Forgetting Risk Assessment
12. Limited (or no) long term planning

The article was created as a submission to Classroom 2.0 5th Anniversary Book Project, and it can be read and downloaded at http://www.scribd.com/doc/103664498/Kelly-Walsh-12-Potential-Ed-Tech-Pitfalls#download.

Seventy-five potential chapters have been submitted to this exciting effort, and those that are downloaded most frequently will be eligible for inclusion in the final publication. (To download a PDF of this article, you will need to sign into Scribd with either a Facebook account or a Scribd account). We hope you'll give it a read through and download a copy of the PDF to keep it around as a quick reference whenever new or updated technologies are being considered or implemented in your school.

After you download the PDF, please send a copy to your colleagues, and especially to the technical support folks and your administrators. Even the most experienced implementation and support personnel are going to pick up a couple of good tips here and they'll thank you for it.

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