Strategies for Adoption in Higher Education
4th September 2010
To answer the question specifically: technologies that show the potential to be most widely adopted will have a combination of network effects, a sticky user experience, and a low-resistance path-to-market that focuses on users and circumvents institutional decision making.
Works fine, lasts a long time, fails safe, and drains to the bilge.
Education is what happens while we’re going to school, even though there is no necessary connection between the two.