Carol Twigg tears into Bill Massy's and Bob Zemsky's recent Thwarted Innovation: What Happened to e-learning and Why, which concluded that e-learning was, overall, a failure. She doesn't like the methodology, she doesn't like the sample, she doesn't like the definitions. These criticisms are valid, but what Twigg doesn't do, unfortunately, is address the authors' conclusion. The one study she cites to support her position, from the Campus Computing project, actually supports Massy's and Zemsky's position, citing as it does widespread cuts in academic computing budgets. Twigg should also look at the failure of several high profile initiatives, she should look at the declining market (cited here this week) for e-learning content, and the general malaise of the LMS market and custom content industry. None of this means that e-learning is dead, of course, but it should be enough to convince that e-learning is in transformation. By attacking the source instead of the issue, Twigg misses the real story. Via Seb Schmoller.
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