10 Tips for Injecting New Technology into Your Campus

This article, on the Campus Technology web site, gives ten such tips. It's based on the example of an actual project to introduce classroom clickers to faculty and students. It's a useful outline of how to address the all-too-common issues of "too busy" and "why learn another tool". The ten tips are:

1. Move quickly, before preferences are staked out;
2. Make the selection process inclusive of students, faculty and staff;
3. Do the product research;
4. Save time by skipping the pilot if you can;
5. Get creative to gather feedback;
6. Take your input to the vendor;
7. Remember integration issues;
8. Keep the initial group of adopters small;
9. Be ready to transition support when you reach a tipping point in adoption; and
10. Remember your goal.