© Daniel Schneider
  3.3. Why are pedagogical platforms over-used?

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3.3. Why are pedagogical platforms over-used?

• Decision makers and many teachers
• are conservative, they want to continue old practices with new software
• are afraid and believe that teaching must be sealed off from the world
• think that something that everybody is selling for a lot of money must be good
• don't know anything else
• Platforms offer many nice tools
• installing each tool separately is expensive and often impossible. Web administrators of the schools system hate Internet applications
• Platforms offer some kind of content management
• Platforms offer a coherent look and feel for the user and the author
• (sometimes an old-fashioned instructionalist teaching strategy is useful ... )

=> Some of these problems can be addressed quite easily

• environment for administration / authoring
• show open-minded teachers the benefits of an open information, discussion and collaboration environment