Ellen Wagner podcast script

Ellen Wagner points out the following question - that as educators,

How do we move beyond the fascination with the latest and greatest and focus on sustainable innovation?

At a minimum, by applying the Gartner Higher Education Hype Cycle model to this question, the slope of enlightenment as portrayed in the model would need to be elongated and extended as much as possible before plateauing.

Any technology that thus has legs and real application to learning could answer this question on its own by being viable, durable, and widely used - though it would need to meet multiple criteria to be successful; being widely used alone does not necessarily make it a good learning tool.

Dr. Wagner's question must be not only answered, but indeed be identified and faced by a greater segment of the population of the learning community if we are to realize true sustained innovation, not once, but as a paradigm.