Documentation:Learning Environment/What do we Fear

What do We Fear
Technology:
 * Unsustainablity
 * Meeting all needs
 * Change in technology
 * Being locked into a system that is not flexible

Resources/Implementation
 * Focus only on efficiency
 * Commitment not there
 * Resources for implementation
 * Big idea but no support/buy in
 * Change (people)
 * Being driven by fiscal constraints vs teaching and learning practices/requirements

Content/Production
 * Adaptive learning (also a hope)
 * Ownership
 * Publisher domination
 * Content rights management
 * Growth of publishers proprietary system

Student/Faculty
 * Students not happy with the solution
 * Collective agreement
 * Student/faculty not buying in
 * Inertia (OLFM & Faculty)
 * Policy/privacy concerns
 * Instructor constrains by the environment
 * Student data FOI /POP

OL Production Team
 * Closed system which is difficult to get large quantities of content into and very difficult to get content out in usable form
 * Loose control over certain processes and with it remove any challenges (be asked to do the most mundane work)
 * Very manual system with limited ability to have efficiency tools
 * Not being able to retain students (frustration, dislike of new system).
 * That a change wouldn’t be necessarily beneficial:
 * Possibly hindering current learning styles and approaches for something new.
 * Isolating a certain or current demographic by trying to reach a new one.
 * Losing a useful feature or a certain functionality that students really like.
 * Lack of support (or know how) from mandatory services such as IT.
 * Certain courses may need to be drastically modified when switching from one LMS to another (ie. ones that rely heavily on tools available only in Blackboard).
 * OLFM’s familiar with Blackboard may require significant additional support getting used to a new LMS.
 * We may encounter unfamiliar issues that we do not know firsthand how to handle.
 * Blackboard specific references may be overlooked when moving courses into a new LMS, causing confusion for students.
 * Moving courses will be slow and tedious
 * LMS will not be easy to learn, will not be intuitive
 * Will not have adequate functionality to meet OLs needs
 * Courses will be difficult to maintain
 * LMS will be forced on us even if it is not accepted by the departments(s)