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Re:Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014) by cgriswald on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @10:43AM (#24481726)
My campus switched to Canvas while I was a student there. Training was provided to the professors. Whether the school developed the training themselves or purchased it as part of a service, I can’t really say although I suspect the latter. It seemed to have been largely effective because nearly all of my classes used Canvas for grades and many of them used additional features.
Re:Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014) by chrismeller on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @11:03AM (#24481965)
Exactly. If a stodgy old tenured professor doesn’t understand how to use the tool... he won’t.

You can’t expect the guy who has dedicated his career to the ancient Egyptian papyrus scrolls about floods in the Nile contributing to the growth of Mesopotamia to also just poke around with this new web-based tool and figure out how it works so he can transfer all his students over to it. He’ll just keep going with the printed page like he has for 40 years of teaching.

Re:Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014) by judge2020 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @10:44AM (#24481740)