This post summarizes a reserach report (44 page PDF) the most important result of which is this: "Making tools useful and usable does not predict adoption; context plays a large role in a social studies teachers' adoption." Or as I would reword it: it doesn't matter how easy a tool is to use if it doesn't do what people want it to do. The tools in question here were an OER to support data literacy in social studies education and DV4L, a Data Visualization for Learning tool for social studies teachers. "The characteristics of the individual teachers and the context of the teacher's classroom are critical factors that technology is unlikely to overcome." Image: HealthCatalyst.
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