I don’t like this article. It appears to muddle its technologies, it throws in terms and references without explaining them and I feel it conflates time periods. I don’t believe that the ‘concept of adding value was identified from the start [1992]’ because I don’t believe the concept of value added came in until a few years after that.

I suppose something it highlights is how quickly innovations cease to be innovative. Thirteen years ago, City University introduces email – students need skills training, they’re resistant, they can’t see what the point of it is.

Having spent some time earlier this year teasing out the differences between IT, ICT and new technology, I’m wary of people who opt for IT in an educational context. Information technology is about storing and accessing information – it gives you the tools to do well in a pub trivia quiz. It is a tool and a resource, but for learning to be taking place you need communication. Most of this article is about IT.

So I don’t think this article is focused on elearning, but on the technologies involved in elearning. It is highlighting the points that innovation requires new skills, that innovators are likely to encounter resistance, that innovation requires a willingness to change practices, and that innovation may require the use of new resources.