Faculty and Management disconnect on technology

Dartmouth's Professor of Learning Technology Joshua Kim blogged in Inside Higher Ed his report of the Atlanta Teaching Professor Technology Conference

Kim picked up on something I often note in HE's: the disconnect between ed-tech innovation at faculty level, and a brake of ignorance or fear at campus management level. Good work gets ghettoised. Best practice (or even any practice standards) are not spread across all student experience.

Here's his take:

What they spoke about was a lack of opportunities to share this work with campus administrative leaders. Classroom innovations are often invisible to the wider campus. Faculty realize that getting their administrative and academic leaders to understand and talk about these innovations is an important goal in order to sustain and spread this work.

That's the teacher's viewpoint. The effects came out from the learner's perspective at the student survey event I ran with D2L at ALT-C2013, where students described their experiences with technology. Their single biggest frustration was that there were no level standards of practice across their courses. Different professors used technology in different ways.