This document outlines 12 common problems that can occur when implementing education technology. These problems include having an insufficient budget, failing to secure support from senior administrators, not having a sponsor for the project, providing inadequate training, insufficiently testing technology from a technical perspective, not considering the student perspective, failing to involve faculty early on, creating technology that is not relevant to its intended audience, not planning for adequate support, failing to incorporate training for new users, forgetting to conduct risk assessments, and having limited or no long term planning.

1. 12 COMMON EDUCATION
TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION
PROBLEMS

2. Insufficient Budget

3. Failure to secure senior
administrator or
executive level buy-in

4. Not having a sponsor

5. Inadequate training

6. Insufficient technical
testing and validation

7. Forgetting to consider
the student’s
perspective

8. Failing to involve
faculty from the onset

9. Relevancy (will the
intended audience want
to use it?)

10. Not planning for
adequate support

11. Failure to incorporate
training into on-
boarding for new
staff/faculty/students

12. Forgetting Risk
Assessment

13. Limited (or no) long
term planning